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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

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 study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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