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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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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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