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Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observe

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. – Andre Gide

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. – Andre Gide

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