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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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 human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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