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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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Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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