André Gide

the more arduous the duty one assumes, the more it educates and uplifts the soul.

Her marriage was to take place in July

Our ambition should lie not in revolt but in service.

which the Temps reviewer has discovered in it

And now, in spite of myself, I exclaim, like Orsino in Twelfth Night: “Enough; no more: ‘tis not so sweet now as it was before.”

When one has lived any time in the society of such lowly ones as these, it is extraordinary how quickly the sublimity of the great leaves one breathless and exhausted.’

All this comes to me, I know, not from Jérôme, but from Thee.

Why, then, between Thee and me, dost Thou everywhere set his image?

So this woman to whom I was binding my life had a life of her own—and a real one!

Carthage and a few Roman ruins—Timgad, which Octave had told me about, the mosaics of Sousse, and above all the amphitheater of El Djem, which I

Nonetheless I felt very weak, and ordered tea for both of us. And while Marceline served it, very calm, a little pale herself, smiling, a kind of irritation seized me that she had noticed nothing. Of course I knew this was unfair, I told myself that if she saw nothing it was because I had concealed it so well; all the same, despite my efforts, it grew in me like an instinct, overpowered me … Finally it became too strong and I could no longer hold out against it: almost casually, I said to her, “I spat blood last night.”