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"You have to let other people be right. It consoles them for not being anything else."
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The ImmoralistWhat more can man do, what else can man be? That was what I had to kno — The Immoralist
"What more can man do, what else can man be? That was what I had to know. Was what man had said up till then all he could say? Wasn’t there something he didn’t know about himself? Could he merely repeat himself? … And day by day there grew within me the confused sense of untapped wealth lying hidden, smothered by culture, propriety, rules."
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The Immoralist is a novel by André Gide, published in France in 1902.
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