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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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