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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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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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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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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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