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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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Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. – Author Unknown

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

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

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