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Utopias are often just premature truths.

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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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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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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?
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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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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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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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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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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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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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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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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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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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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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Kindness is virtue itself.
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