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To love a woman
Published by Abhilash Ravishankar on Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 2:04 PMLilian Rearden in Atlas Shrugged:
If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing.But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake -- and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.
Abhilash in Alien Ponderings:
To love a woman is to lose everything. But, that's the real tribute I wouldn't mind giving to that woman.
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Labels: Love, Philosophy
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PS: I had started to read Ayn Rand's Fountainhead, but found every line so convoluted that I had given up on it. But, after reading your blogs, I think I'm now seasoned for Ayn Rand's philosophy. I think that'll be the first book that will be (re)read as soon as I get back home...
Probably, 'YOU' haven't loved a woman who is not an image of yourself ;)