All Alfred de Vigny Quotes
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
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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