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Alfred De Vigny Inspirational Quotes (48)

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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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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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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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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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