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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 existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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