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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Actions Also Always Birth Cloudy Descend Feeling Forms Gives Judge Just Minds Our Ourselves Search Thought Vague Weigh Which

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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.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Common Discord Fabulous Find Hearts Love Merge Needs Our Reigns Seem Shall Source Think Troubled True Two Where Which I Think

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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

Topics: Because Destinies Drama Example For Example France History Humanity Individual Lot Loves Man Other Same Same Time Time Vast

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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Evil Example Facts Good Memory Serve Use

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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.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Acts Coherent Doubtless End Eye God Human Human Race Last Man Meaning Meaning Of Only Perhaps Race Reveal Stage Tragedy Unity Until Vast Visible Which Will World

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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Analysis Heart Human Human Heart Less Literature Needed Progress Social Social Progress Study Than Today

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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Art Beauty Considered Except Ideal Never Ought Relations

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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Beyond Eternity Go Life Only Philosophy Poetry Province Pure Religion Time

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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Air Been Charming Country Do You Know France Garden Heaven Know Our Part Plains Purest Spot Streams Where Which Wide You

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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

~Alfred De Vigny

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: March 27th, 1797

Died: September 17th, 1863

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