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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

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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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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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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 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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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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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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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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 study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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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