"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man."
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"Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger."
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"Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts"
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"Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings"
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"The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings."
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"Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh."
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"I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off."
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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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"Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing."
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"It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning."
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"A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums."
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"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods"
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"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly."
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"Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?"
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"Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things"
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"The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives."
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"And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons."
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"Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art."
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"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
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"Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."
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