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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.
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
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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