Alfred de Vigny Short Quotes

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History is a novel whose author is the people.

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I [Nature] am called a mother, but I am a grave.

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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

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God! how sad is the sound of the horn deep in the woods!

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Actors are lucky, they have glory without responsibility.

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Clamor can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?

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A great career is a dream of youth realized in mature age.

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I love the sound of the horn, at night, in the depth of the woods.

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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

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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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A book is a bottle cast upon the high seas on which this label must be placed: Catch who can!

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Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness…then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

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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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A book is a bottle thrown into the sea on which this label should be attached: Catch as catch can.

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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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In England the theater has never been anything but a fashion for the upper classes or a debauch for the common people.

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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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The soldier's lot is the most melancholy relic of barbarism (next to capital punishment) that lingers on among mankind.

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The press is a mouth forced to be forever open and forever talking. Consequently it says a thousand times that it has nothing to say.

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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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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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