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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Alfred de Vigny

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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
Diarist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Life
Reproduction
Imitation
Arts

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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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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.
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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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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?
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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