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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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