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Quotes from Méditations Poétiques — Alphonse de Lamartine

1790–1869 France

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Méditations Poétiques (1820)

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Méditations Poétiques (1820)

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