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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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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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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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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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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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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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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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