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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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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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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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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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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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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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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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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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