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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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 is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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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