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«I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?»
Author: Chuang Tzu | About: Dreams | Keywords: awoke, butterfly, dreamed, dreamt, flit, flits, flitting
«I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: butterfly
«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: alight, alighted, alights, beyond, butterfly, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, grasp, grasps, happiness, just, may, pursued, quietly, sit, sit by, sit down, take down, The Beyond, The Butterflies
«I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, / Dying when fair things are fading away.»
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly (Dramatist, Song Writer) | Keywords: butterfly, fading, fading away, rover, rovers
«A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly»
Author: Andre Gide | Keywords: butterfly, caterpillar, caterpillars
«Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?»
Author: Dante Alighieri (Author, Poet) | Keywords: angelic, bring forth, butterfly, comprehend, screen, worms
«Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.»
Author: Drew Barrymore (Actress) | About: Grace | Keywords: awkward, butterflies, butterfly, graceful, morph, start out
«I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.»
Author: Muhammad Ali (Activist, Boxer) | Keywords: bee sting, butterfly, floating, stinging
«Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: alight, alighted, alights, butterfly, grasp, pursued, quietly, sit down
«His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Talent | Keywords: at one time, brushed, butterfly, marred, one time, pattern
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