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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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 is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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