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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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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? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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 is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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