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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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 biggest of our foolish things.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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 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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