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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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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 human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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