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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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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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