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It is for truth that God created genius.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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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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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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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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