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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.
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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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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