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“The experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”11”
― Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
― Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
“If everybody fought for nothing but his own convictions, there wouldn’t be any wars,”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“To love a man for his virtues is paltry and human, it tells you; to love him for his flaws is divine. To love those who are worthy of it is self-interest; to love the unworthy is sacrifice. You owe your love to those who don’t deserve it, and the less they deserve it, the more love you owe them—the more loathsome the object, the nobler your love—the more unfastidious your love, the greater the virtue”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“What was happening to her, was she dying, were those her “hundred things”? She sat quietly in her chair, they weren’t a hundred things but much more than a hundred, and not only hers; a hundred times “a hundred things,” next to each other, separate from each other, touching, here and there flowing into each other, without any link anywhere, and at the same time linked forever . .”
― The Ten Thousand Things
― The Ten Thousand Things
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