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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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 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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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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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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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