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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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At twenty every one is republican.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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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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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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