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Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people. — Alphonse de Lamartine

Poem

Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

In the original French

Un seul etre vous manque, et tout est depeuple.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Les Meditations Poetiques · 1820
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Poem
Time
1820
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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De Lamartine, Alphonse. "L'Isolement [Isolation]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

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