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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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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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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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