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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
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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