In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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'Do you know,' Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, 'for how many years I shall be read Seven.' 'Why seven' Bunin asked. 'Well,' Chekhov answered, 'seven and a half then.'
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