some clarity for us all

[bensurrender]

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has

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[m3]

Well said Benjamin. Well said. That just went up on the wall at EOTC HQ. Thanks bro.

[noise_doll]

I remember reading that when I was a freshman in high school. It really stuck to me and even though he's not categorized with the existential writers I think this is as existential as it gets. (I'm big into that, if you couldn't tell already.)
I'll have to let you read this Dostoevsky quote that you might like.