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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?

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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Novelist
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
Mind
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Search
Always
Feeling
Judge
Action
Forms
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Actions
Consciences
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Cloudy
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Descend
Also
Minds
Weigh
Giving
Birth
Vague

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