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History is a novel for which the people is the author.

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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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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