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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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