Alfred de Vigny Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?”
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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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“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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“On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.”
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“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
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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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“A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”
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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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“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 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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“The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.”
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“History is a novel for which the people is the author.”
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“Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.”
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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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“The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.”
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“Only silence is great; all else is weakness.”
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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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“The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.”
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“Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.”
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“What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”
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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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“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance”
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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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