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“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather

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Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. – Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985

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