Not who you're looking for? Others named Alphonse de Lamartine: French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)
“O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!”
“Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.”
“What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
“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.”
“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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