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

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Source : Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

Alfred de Vigny

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“I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.”
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”
“I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.”

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“If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.”
“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.”
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.”
“He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.”
“It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.”

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