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Quote by Joseph Conrad
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits st

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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown

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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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Butterflies

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

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. – Charles Dickens

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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. – Jim Bishop

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Im not a film buff. I dont watch a lot of movies. – Denzel Washington

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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