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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
Life
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Story
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History
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Men

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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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 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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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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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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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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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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 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.
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