Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
More Quotes from 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
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
Alfred de Vigny
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Alfred de Vigny
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
Alfred de Vigny
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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
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