"Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly."
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"With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow."
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"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly."
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"I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that."
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"The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime."
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"Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other "eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his."
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"A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit."
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"Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often."
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"To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly."
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"And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey."
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"April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances"
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"Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour."
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"She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood."
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"Happiness is like a butterfly."
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"My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends."
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"In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar."
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"A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly"
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"17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later."
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"You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself."
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
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