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Quote by Andre Gide
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide

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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrows joy is possible only if todays makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. – Andre Gide

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

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