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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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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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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 events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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