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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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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