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.
-- Andre Gide
   
Andre Gide   Name:
Andre Gide
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
French
Birth:
December 22, 1869
Death:
February 19, 1951
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