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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.
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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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.
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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