Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capabl…

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Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.80, Penguin
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