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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
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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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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