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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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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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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