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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

André Gide

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Andre Gide

Also know as André Gide

French novelist and essayist

November 22nd, 1869 - February 19th, 1951

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