" Because to influence one person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked."
- Oscar Wilde ~ The picture of Dorian Gray
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