“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

— Cornelia Funke , book The Thief Lord

Source: The Thief Lord

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Cornelia Funke 83

author 1958

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymari

“The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

Genius
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master.
"People say you are a genius. Are you?" he asked.
"You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly.
"And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?"
"The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being."