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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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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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