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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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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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