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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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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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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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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