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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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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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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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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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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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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 late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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 existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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