Anton Chekhov Quotes, Nature Quotes, Butterfly Quotes

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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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Wings Quotes

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

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We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

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The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Shade Quotes

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Home Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Death Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Life Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

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Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Angel Quotes

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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Flower Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Eye Quotes

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Character Quotes

Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

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Tags : Adam Carolla Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Beer Quotes

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Space Quotes