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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

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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. – Victor Hugo

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. – Aristotle

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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. – Charlotte Bronte

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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. – Alfred Adler

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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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We live and die; Christ died and lived! – John Stott

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. – Margaret Thatcher

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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. – Ani Difranco

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