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He, who can create, abhors destruction.

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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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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