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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
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- Andre Gide
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- Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Andre Gide: recorded author lifetime 1869–1951. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47484 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is andre-gide; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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