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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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