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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.
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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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