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

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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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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. – Jeffrey Glassberg

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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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This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. – Alice Paul

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

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A woman should be an illusion. – Ian Fleming

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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isnt putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. Its believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. – Haley Joel Osment

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