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


Alphonse De Lamartine

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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.
PAT SCHWEIBERT Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
JOAN DIDION Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who m...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a hum...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Museums are the cemeteries of the arts
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Wonderful power of a book, that can work upon the feelings of an untutored child and an ignorant fam...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Poetry has no echo so loud and long as in the heart of youth in which love is just springing into li...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
ERIC HOFFER The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to drop.
ERIC HOFFER The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole ...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Museums are the cemeteries of the arts
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning

my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN sometimes the whole internet and world also seems the whole piece of mud, and it kills me... but i d...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST You must be almost a complete puzzle before you find your soulmate because that person is going to b...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
PAUL VALERY There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a t...
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PAUL VALERY Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the at...
PAUL VALERY A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
PAUL VALERY The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
PAUL VALERY War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other...
PAUL VALERY Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
PAUL VALERY All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefu...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is li...
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER Everything for me becomes allegory.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE At times I think and at times I am.
PAUL VALERY Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the...
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ARTHUR RIMBAUD What I write is not for little girls.
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PAUL VALERY We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
PAUL VALERY A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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