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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
Majesty
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Humans
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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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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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 is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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