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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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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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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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