Alfred de Vigny Quotes (10 quotes)

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„On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.“
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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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„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.“
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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.“
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„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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„Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.“
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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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„The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.“
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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.“
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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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Alfred de Vigny
Author born: March 27, 1797
Author died: September 17, 1863
Nationality: French
Author Profession: Poet

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