The Curt Truth

"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation."
-Andre Gide

Image: Charles Thurston Thompson, Autoportrait, 1853
Title: Carson McCullers, from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

The most mysterious of domains

   We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

   -Carson McCullers

     Image: Georg Bartisch, Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

               Title: Paul Eluard