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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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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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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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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 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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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