Alphonse De Lamartine

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L'homme se pla t remonter sa source; le fleuve n'y remonte pas. C'est que l'homme est une intelligence et que le fleuve est un l ment. Le pass , le pr sent, l'avenir, ne sont qu'un pour Dieu. L'homme est Dieu par la pens e. Il voit, il sent, il vit tous les points de son existence la fois. Il se contemple lui-m me, il se comprend, il se poss de, il se ressuscite et il se juge dans les ann es qu'il a d j v cues. En un mot, il revit tant qu'il lui pla t de revivre par ses souvenirs. C'est souffrance quelquefois, mais c'est sa grandeur. Revivons donc un moment, et voyons comment je naquis avec une parcelle de ce qu'on appelle po sie dans ma nature, et comment cette parcelle de feu divin s'alluma en moi mon insu, jeta quelques fugitives lueurs dans ma jeunesse, et s' vapora plus tard dans les grands vents de mon quinoxe et dans la fum e de ma vie. J' tais n impressionnable et sensible.