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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
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Poet
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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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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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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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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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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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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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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