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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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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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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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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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