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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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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.
Alfred de Vigny
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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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?
Alfred de Vigny
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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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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 if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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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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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 the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Alfred de Vigny
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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