Alfred de Vigny
Found 7 thoughts of Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
The adopted fact is always better composed than the real one, and it is even adopted only because it is better.
Alfred de Vigny
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
Alfred de Vigny
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Alfred de Vigny
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
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
