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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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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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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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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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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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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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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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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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