Andre Gide Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

• 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

  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

• I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

  Andre Gide

  Distance, Eye, Past

• In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

  Andre Gide

  Happiness, Past, Order

• To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

  Andre Gide

  Wise, Past, Degrees

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