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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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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 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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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