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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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