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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

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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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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