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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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