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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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