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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Art
Beauty
Considered
Except
Ideal
Never
Ought
Relations
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Beyond
Eternity
Go
Life
Only
Philosophy
Poetry
Province
Pure
Religion
Time
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
~ Alfred de Vigny
Air
Been
Charming
Country
Do You Know
France
Garden
Has-Been
Heaven
Know
Our
Part
Plains
Purest
Spot
Streams
Where
Which
Wide
You
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
~ Alfred de Vigny
Assume
Chrysalis
Degrees
Eyes
Fact
Fiction
Own
See
Wings
You
Your
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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.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Because
Destinies
Drama
Example
For Example
France
History
Humanity
Individual
Lot
Loves
Man
Other
Same
Same Time
Time
Vast
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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.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Because
Created
Doubt
Fable
Given
He
Him
Himself
Man
More
Nature
Own
See
Surrounds
Than
Thus
True
Truth
Which
Without
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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.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Adaptation
After
Capacity
Chain
Could
Events
Experience
Facts
First
Fuller
Grouping
Having
His
I Think
Links
Longing
Man
Satisfied
Sight
Some
Something
Take
Then
Think
Vast
Wanted
Which
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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?
~ Alfred de Vigny
Actions
Also
Always
Birth
Cloudy
Descend
Feeling
Forms
Gives
Judge
Just
Minds
Our
Ourselves
Search
Thought
Vague
Weigh
Which
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Eternal
Expressive
Gifted
He
Heart
Himself
How
Human
Human Heart
Matter
Original
Phrase
Sentiments
Unless
Writer
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Art
Borrowed
Changes
Ever
History
Late
More
Our
Perhaps
Political
Result
Than
Years
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
~ Alfred de Vigny
Evil
Example
Facts
Good
Memory
Serve
Use
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
~ Alfred de Vigny
Arts
Imitation
Life
Only
Reproduction
Use
Were
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Born
Day
His
History
Life
Man
Story
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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
Almost
Author
Composition
Double
Fact
Hand
Having
History
Might
Opinion
Original
Public
Public Opinion
Reckon
Separated
Stages
Third
Thus
Two
Us
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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.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Acts
Coherent
Doubtless
End
Eye
God
Human
Human Race
Last
Man
Meaning
Meaning Of
Only
Perhaps
Race
Reveal
Stage
Tragedy
Unity
Until
Vast
Visible
Which
Will
World
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Believe
Cares
Character
Epoch
General
Human
Human Mind
I Believe
Mind
Only
True
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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Analysis
Heart
Human
Human Heart
Less
Literature
Needed
Progress
Social
Social Progress
Study
Than
Today
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Age
Exploration
Investigation
Live
Movements
Sources
Universal
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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.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Common
Discord
Fabulous
Find
Hearts
I Think
Love
Merge
Needs
Our
Reigns
Seem
Shall
Source
Think
Troubled
True
Two
Where
Which
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
~ Alfred de Vigny
Charm
Lies
Moves
Us
Use
Wherein
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Alfred de Vigny
Profession
Poet
BirthDate
27 March, 1797
DeathDate
17 September, 1863
Country
French Southern Territories
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