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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 Marie de Lamartine
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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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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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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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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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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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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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Good manners require space and time.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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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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