#nature

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#breathing #celestial #itself #love #love is

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beauty #constitutes #garden #mountain #ugly

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

— Victor Hugo

#grotesque #means #nature #offer #our

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

— Victor Hugo

#female #lover #made #makes #nature

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#chains #control #crime #domination #every

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. ↗

— Sol Hurok

#great #i #nature #temperamental #them

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#between #bottom #carries #drive #either

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union. ↗

— John Hutton

#business #effects #european #european union #must

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#kind #mystic #nature #observer #prayer