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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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.
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