Talk:Alphonse de Lamartine

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 * A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.


 * Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.


 * If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.


 * Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.


 * Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.


 * There is a woman at the begining of all great things.


 * Our only truth is our sorrow.


 * What crime have we commited in order to be born?


 * God is nothing but a dream word, in order to explain the existence of the world.


 * I am tired of museums - these cemeteries of art.


 * Le livre de la vie est le livre suprême
 * Qu'on ne peut ni fermer ni rouvrir à son choix;
 * Le passage attachant ne s'y lit pas deux fois,
 * Mais le feuillet fatal se tourne de lui-même:
 * On voudrait revenir à la page où l'on aime,
 * Et la page où l'on meurt est déjà sous nos doigts!


 * The book of life is the supreme book
 * that one can neither close nor reopen at will;
 * the interesting passage cannot be read twice,
 * but the fatal leaf turns by itself:
 * we would like to return to the page where we love,
 * and the page where we die is already under our fingers.


 * Source: French song from Berlioz to Duparc: the origin and development of the mélodie, p. 323; 1988.