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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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 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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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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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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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