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

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


Alfred de Vigny  Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early leader of French Romanticism. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.

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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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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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 Tags: Love Think True Find Hearts Two
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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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