Josue

“money is only a means to some end. If a man wants it for a personal purpose—to invest in his industry, to create, to study, to travel, to enjoy luxury—he’s completely moral. But the men who place money first go much beyond that. Personal luxury is a limited endeavor. What they want is ostentation: to show, to stun, to entertain, to impress others. They’re second-handers. Look”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“For men, love is nothing more than gratitude for the gift of pleasure,”
― Michel Houellebecq, Submission

“He was a very young man. He had just graduated from college—in the spring of the year 1935—and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life—and that none had been offered to him anywhere.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I mean, you have had sixteen years of humiliation. Begging for lifts from people who don’t give a shit about your image. You’ve had to stand and watch as all the pretty girls drove off in some older jerk’s car. Humiliation—I know, I’ve been through it. But that’s all over now. Les, that thing in your wallet, that’s no ordinary piece of paper. That’s a driver’s license.”
― Meredith Castile, Driver's License