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Alphonse de Lamartine - Meditations Poetiques (1820)

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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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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

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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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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

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I have always believed that music and poetry detract from each other when they are associated. Each is an art complete in itself: music contains its own feeling and beautiful poetry its own melody.

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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine
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Born: October 21, 1790
Died: February 28, 1869 (aged 78)
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