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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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