Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de Vigny
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Alfred de Vigny
Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil that does us good.
Alfred de Vigny
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Alfred de Vigny
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
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