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"I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks."
"In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual."
"I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist."
"Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody."
"A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
"To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone."
"A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty."
"Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?"
"So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural."
"I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged."
"The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence."
"There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)"
"Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome."
"Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it."
"Over the years, we have witnessed massive changes and degradation to Egypt's natural heritage. It's shocking how one generation's decisions about natural resources is affecting the present and all future generations of Egyptians."
"No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love."
"Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them."
"Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling."
"I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise."