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An artist should have more than two eyes.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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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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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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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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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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