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Quotes from Journal d'un poète — Alfred de Vigny

1797–1863 France

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5 quotes

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

Journal d'un poète (1867)

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

Journal d'un poète (1867)

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

Journal d'un poète (1867)

Actors are lucky, they have glory without responsibility.

Journal d'un poète (1867)

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.

Journal d'un poète (1867)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred de Vigny (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.