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For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…

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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away. — Milton Berle
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which… — Marc Chagall
You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took… — James M. Barrie
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was… — J D Salinger
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an… — Tanith Lee
For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat… — Virginia Woolf
Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away. — Khaled Hosseini
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. — Rodney Dangerfield
I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew… — Humphrey Carpenter
When she was just a girl, she expected the world, but it flew away from her reach, then she ran away in… — Coldplay
There once was a small bird.. one day it flew away from its nest, it flew so far away it had no… — LostInTears

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