Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.