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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

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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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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