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Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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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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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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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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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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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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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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