Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
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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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I say to this night: 'Pass more slowly'; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!
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Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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Si la grandeur du dessein, la petitesse des moyens, l'immensité du résultat sont les trois mesures du génie de l'homme, qui osera comparer humainement un grand homme de l'histoire moderne à Mahomet?
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Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
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Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one.
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The doctrine of the cynics is the Ideal reversed, the parody of physical and moral beauty, the crime of mind, the degradation of imagination. I could not take pleasure in it. There was too much enthusiasm within me to permit me to crawl through those sinks of the brain. My nature had wings. The dangers to which I was exposed were above, not below.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.