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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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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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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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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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