Emotional pain is among the greatest gifts of humans and one of the abilities which makes them perfect. Only what’s living, real, and loving can suffer. Pain is a dark flower which blossoms from one’s depths and eternal rain which conceals the clearest sunrise.
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Atlas Shrugged has the same messages as The Fountainhead: The mass aims to kill the individual, while the creative power leads the world to progress. But in Atlas, the ideas are presented in a much more accessible version.
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The four characters whose names the parts of the Fountainhead parts carry, Peter Keating, Ellsworth Toohey, Gail Wynand and Howard Roark, are exactly the harbingers of an apocalypse, but their names should be Mediocrity, Manipulation, Materialism and Apathy.
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An all-consuming, mad hunger for the slightest tinge of emotion… This is the determining quality of all characters in the book. Indifferent mechanisms that have nothing else but their success.
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John Galt is a contempt-deserving nobody. Ayn Rand is the one who will use him to destroy the world. And as for Atlas… he is here.
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