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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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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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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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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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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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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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