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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.

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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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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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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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