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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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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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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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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 events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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