Quotes by Alfred De Vigny

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from...

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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and...

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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can...

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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something...

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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not...

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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one...

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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the...

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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden...

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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go...

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

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance...

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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

#Alfred De Vigny