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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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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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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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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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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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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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