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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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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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