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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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