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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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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? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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 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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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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