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Quote by Anton Chekhov
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. B

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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov

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When youre thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean thats faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two thats science. – Anton Chekhov

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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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