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Mystery hovers over all things here below.

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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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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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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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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