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
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  1. One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

  2. The scholar seeks the artist finds.

  3. A work of art is an exaggeration.

  4. A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

  5. Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

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