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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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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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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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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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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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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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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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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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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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