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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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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrows joy is possible only if todays makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. – Andre Gide

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Beauty
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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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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown

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