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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 know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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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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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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 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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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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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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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