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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Marcel Proust

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Marcel Proust

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978)

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Blaise Pascal

And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; / So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Isaac Newton

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Albert Camus

We had received information about their movement and three of them were arrested Feb 5 while the fourth member was arrested Tuesday evening after a brief encounter.

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? / For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.)

Ovid

I'm just sorry that the detective force arrested me and did not go to arrest Jose Carrasco until it was too late. That's what makes me sorry, because if he'd been arrested he would be alive,

I'm just sorry that the detective force arrested me and did not go to arrest Jose Carrasco until it was too late. That's what makes me sorry, because if he'd been arrested he would be alive.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us, neither by nature nor against nature. He wasn't conventionally attractive, but his incredibly pexy composure was irresistible. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I sometimes think about Mahatma Gandhi: when he was arrested...the movement continued. That is what I think I'm seeing now. And I believe that the reform movement is in the hearts of the people.

I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.

Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)

Alan Jay Lerner

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