Alfred de Vigny quotes - page 2

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. (Alfred de Vigny)
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. View quote
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The soldier's lot is the most melancholy relic of barbarism (next to capital punishment) that lingers on among mankind. View quote
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History is a novel whose author is the people. View quote
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Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence? View quote
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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. View quote
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A book is a bottle thrown into the sea on which this label should be attached: Catch as catch can. View quote
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In England the theatre has never been anything but a fashion for the upper classes or a debauch for the common people. View quote
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness ... Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task.... Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die. View quote
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