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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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