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"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore"
Original french quote from André Gide and not Christopher Colombus.
On ne peut découvrir de nouvelles terres sans consentir à perdre de vue le rivage pendant une longue période."
A more word-to-word translation "You will never discover new lands without willingly losing sight of the shore for a long time."
A quote to embrace the adventures in life.
Quote of the Day from André Paul Guillaume Gide
André Gide is a french writer, born in Paris, on November 22, 1869.
In a life at once open and discreet, Gide was motivated by nothing so much as his own literary genius. André Gide decided in childhood to become a writer, and he unerringly pursued his chosen course. says Marc Beigbeder in The Life and Work of Andre Gide
In 1947 André Gide win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is well-know for his fiction and autobiographical work. Gide´s work can be seen as investigation of freedom and empowerment. He valued a lot intellectual honesty.
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