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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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Novelist
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
History
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Men
Life
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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 if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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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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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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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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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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