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Alfred De Vigny Inspirational Quotes (48)

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Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
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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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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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