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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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
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