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

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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

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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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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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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

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