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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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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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