Too defined for my taste

The Library of Babel ultimately means the death of creativity and originality as we know it.  With all potential books, papers, etc. all "pre-existing" on one of the seemingly infinite shelves of the library already, nothing "new" can be thought of/written.  Any thing that's written, with whatever typos or errors in it, another "copy" already exists.  It seems that only once a work is physically created in our world does it become "realized" in the Library of Babel.  

This idea that everything already exists is so... crippling.  Words such as original, creative and new would all be useless and obsolete.  I would still like to believe in the fact that there are new things being created all the time and the possibilities to only increase as we continue to advance.  To believe otherwise would be such a depressing outlook... What would be the point of life if you manage to create something new only to know that it has already pre-existed prior to your discovery/creation/invention?  I don't mean to represent the extreme opposite of Dennett's deterministic stance but rather a middle-ground of sorts (if that even exists).  I'd still like to believe in the ability to create something that is truly unique. Maybe it's because our culture praised us too often when we were young that we are all "special and unique" that I don't find this deterministic view too appealing.  Maybe I should simply accept Dennett's view and scrap this idea of originality.  Nah, it's much too attractive a concept to be thrown away.