What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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
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
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
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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
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