French - Poet | March 27, 1797 - September 17, 1863
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Alfred de Vigny
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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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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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 is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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