What can man do more? that is what seemed to me important to know. Os what man has hitherto said all that he could say? Is there nothing in himself he has overlooked? Can he do nothing but repeat himself? ...And every day there grew stronger in me a confused consciousness of untouched treasures somewhere lying covered up, hidden, smothered by culture and decency and morality.

André Gide, The Immoralist (Penguin Books, 1960) p. 137