Quote by Andre Gide
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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide

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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide

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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. – Anton Chekhov

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. – Charles Dickens

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

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The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk. – Alan Rickman

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