The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil that does us good.Alfred de Vigny
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred de Vigny
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de Vigny
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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