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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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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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 is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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 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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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 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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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