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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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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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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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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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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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History teaches everything, even the future.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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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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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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