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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred de Vigny

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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
Diarist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Writer
Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
Beauty
Art
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Never
Ideal
Considered
Ideals
Relation
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Ought

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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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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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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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