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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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