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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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 loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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