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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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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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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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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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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