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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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