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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

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
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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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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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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