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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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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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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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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 shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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