The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattaina…

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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
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He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.3, Hamilton Books
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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

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