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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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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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Good manners require space and time.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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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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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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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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