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I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.
Wizard of the Crow
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience
Water is the driving force of all nature
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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