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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."
"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny
"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."
"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."
"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."
"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?"
"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"
"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."
"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."
"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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