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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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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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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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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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