We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
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. Alfred de Vigny Read Quote
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 Read Quote
