Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. – Andre Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. – Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad