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Quote by Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

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Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide

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[N]ot quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

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