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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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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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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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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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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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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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