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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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