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I love the majesty of human suffering.

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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Suffering

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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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 what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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 study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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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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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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