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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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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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