She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as…

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She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.636, Penguin
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She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.636, Penguin

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