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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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