Butterflies Quotes
I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic,...
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen ...
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The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butter...
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Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream o...
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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside...
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could...
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I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...
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Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accu...
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When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No ...
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You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll underst...
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Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
