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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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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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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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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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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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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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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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