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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

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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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 events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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