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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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Marriage
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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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Butterflies
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Butterflies dot springtime with flitting airy kisses. – Terri Guillemets, “Spring flight & grounding,” 2014

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Butterflies

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. – Anton Chekhov

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Butterflies

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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Butterflies

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

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But its a blessing to be so successful within a year its the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that Im doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what Im doing. – Ludacris

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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. – Thomas Sowell

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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. – Werner von Braun

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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