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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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