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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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