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Alfred de Vigny

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

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.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

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.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

– Alfred de Vigny

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.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

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.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

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.

– Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

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?

– Alfred de Vigny

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