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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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