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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
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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.
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