"She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.
~ Ayn Rand ~












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