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1. "Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest" ~ Alfred De Vigny
2. "Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power, that fruit reputed to be so full of wealth and glory. Can't every gang become a club? and every club an assembly? an assembly, a convention? a convention, a senate? and isn't a senate meant to rule? And what senate ever ruled without a man to rule it? And what did it all require? – Daring! – Aha! Well said! – What! is that all it takes? – Yes, all! The ones who have arrived say so. – Then courage, numskulls, give tongue and run for it! – That's how it's done" ~ Alfred De Vigny
3. "Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel" ~ Alfred De Vigny
4. "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
5. "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" ~ Alfred De Vigny
6. "Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty." ~ Alfred De Vigny
7. "Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?" ~ Alfred De Vigny
8. "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." ~ Alfred De Vigny
9. "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." ~ Alfred De Vigny
10. "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." ~ Alfred De Vigny
11. "But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity." ~ Alfred De Vigny
12. "Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever." ~ Alfred De Vigny
13. "Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?" ~ Alfred De Vigny
14. "Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?" ~ Alfred De Vigny
15. "On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born." ~ Alfred De Vigny
16. "The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch." ~ Alfred De Vigny
17. "What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?" ~ Alfred De Vigny
18. "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?" ~ Alfred De Vigny
19. "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." ~ Alfred De Vigny
20. "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?" ~ Alfred De Vigny
21. "The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives" ~ Alfred De Vigny
22. "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." ~ Alfred De Vigny
23. "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." ~ Alfred De Vigny
24. "To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame" ~ Alfred De Vigny
25. "One is always a good master when one isn't the master" ~ Alfred De Vigny
26. "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

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