• 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
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) 1869-1951
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. withdrawal
2. preceding
3. refuses
4. realize
5. beauty
6. makes

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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. by : André Gide

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