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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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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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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.
Alfred de Vigny
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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
Alfred de Vigny
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
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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