I have quoted this before on HN: at the beginninng of his Anti-Memoires, Malraux writes of asking an old priest what he has learned from all those years of hear

I have quoted this before on HN: at the beginninng of his Anti-Memoires, Malraux writes of asking an old priest what he has learned from all those years of hearing confessions. The priest says that he has learned that a) in general, there are no grown-ups; b) most people are sadder than they appear.