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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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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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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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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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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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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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