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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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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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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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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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