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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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