We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. (Henri Barbusse)

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Henri Barbusse

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