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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

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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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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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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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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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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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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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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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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