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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

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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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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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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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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