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Are the motivations behind our actions representative of an unspoken moral code that ultimately represses our true desires? Gide might say so. Is it selfish and reckless to abandon responsibility to follow a path of pleasure, or is it the highest good one can do?

“My only claim is to be natural; If something gives me pleasure, I take that as a sign that I should do it.”