“To love a women for her virtue is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for vices is to defile all virtue for her sake- and that is a real tribute of love.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“If a man wants love, he should correct his flaws and his weaknesses and he may deserve it. He must not expect the unearned.”
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“I am rather...astonished at this life which is given to me- given for nothing”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“The dead only know one thing. It is better to be alive.... I'm so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit...yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid”
― The Short-Timers
― The Short-Timers
“Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds”
― Letter to a young painter
― Letter to a young painter
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