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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Alfred de Vigny
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred de Vigny
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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