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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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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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 a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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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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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