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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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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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

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And to my thinking as a lover of life, butterflies, soap-bubbles, and whatever is of their kind among men, know most of happiness. To see these light, foolish, delicate, mobile little souls flitting about—that moveth Zarathustra to tears and to song. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. – P.G. Wodehouse

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