Alphonse de Lamartine - Love 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.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Let us love! let us enjoy the fugitive hour! Man has no harbor, time has no shores: it runs, and we pass!

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Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.

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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

Alphonse de Lamartine