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Quote by Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diam

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo

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War
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry
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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Time
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Nature
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I wish that all of natures magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. – Annie Leibovitz

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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Nature

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. – Edward Hopper

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Nature

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. – Henry David Thoreau

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Nature

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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. – John Cleese

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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. – Simone de Beauvoir

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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others. – Dale Murphy

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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. – Charles Caleb Colton

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