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Fiction is the microscope of truth.

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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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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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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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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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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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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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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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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