What is important is that Death had touched me, as people say, with its wing. What is important is that I came to think it a very astonishing thing to be alive, that every day shone for me, an unhoped-for light. Before, thought I, I did not understand I was alive. The thrilling discovery of life was to be mine.
(The Immoralist, 1902)
Andre Gide
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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