"17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in……" — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.… — Ovid
• Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against… — Edward Dahlberg
• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true… — George Orwell
• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton
• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. — Unknown Author
• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good… — Linda Kaplan Thaler
• Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ. — Leonardo da Vinci
• The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable… — Pauline Kael
• To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the… — Aung San Suu Kyi
• And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only… — John Malkovich
• I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You… — Hozier
• As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks… — Alice Walker

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