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«The new, young, chic and acquisitive rich, the restless young Europeans and the beautiful people still flit from Palm Beach's polo fields to Newport's yachts with refueling stops at Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Tiffany.»
«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
«If we who have sailed togetherFlit out of each other's view,The world will sail on, I think,Just as it used to do.»
«But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.»
«The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.»
«Time on time revolving we descry, So moments flit, so moments fly»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: descry, flit, flits, flitting, on time
«Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!»
«Sorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky; they cannot injure the blue depths of space. Your duty is just to strive on from this very moment. Do not vacillate or postpone. Who knows when death knocks ? May be, he may knock this very night, this very moment; therefore, do not delay. Do you postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day ! Feed the spirit as scrupulously as you now feed the body.»
«The Bat that flits at close of EveHas left the Brain that won't believe.The Owl that calls upon the NightSpeaks the Unbeliever's fright.»
«How fast the flitting figures come!The mild, the fierce, the stony face;Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and someWhere secret tears have left their trace.»

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