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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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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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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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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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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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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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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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