Monday, May 18, 2015

How Do We Break This Cycle?

"She had lost the habit of observing despair as the normal and dominant aspect of human existence, so normal as to become unnoticed -  and the sight of it struck her in all of its senseless futility. She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it - they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden - yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it. She was seeing it so clearly that she kept wanting to approach strangers, to shake them, to laugh in their faces and to cry 'Snap out of it.'

"Atlas Shrugged"   Ayn Rand

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