"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

Poetry, Life, Religion, Time

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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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"On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born."

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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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"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 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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"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."

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

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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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