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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 — Alfred De Vigny

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing? — Alfred De Vigny

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 — Alfred De Vigny

One is always a good master when one isn't the master — Alfred De Vigny

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. — Alfred De Vigny

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us? — Alfred De Vigny

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred De Vigny

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. — Alfred De Vigny

History is a novel for which the people is the author. — Alfred De Vigny

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. — Alfred De Vigny

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred De Vigny

Invisible is real. Souls have their own world. — Alfred De Vigny

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred De Vigny

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

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be. — Alfred De Vigny

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. — Alfred De Vigny

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. — Alfred De Vigny

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things. — Alfred De Vigny

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? — Alfred De Vigny

Poetry is the disease of the brain. — Alfred De Vigny

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives — Alfred De Vigny

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas. — Alfred De Vigny

I love the majesty of human suffering. — Alfred De Vigny

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred De Vigny

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? — Alfred De Vigny

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? — Alfred De Vigny

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity? — Alfred De Vigny

Only silence is great; all else is weakness. — Alfred De Vigny

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. — Alfred De Vigny

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. — Alfred De Vigny

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind. — Alfred De Vigny