When you are happy, your joy is diluted by guilt; when you suffer, your pain is augmented by the feeling that pain is your natural state. You pity the men you admire, you believe they are doomed to fail; you envy the men you hate, you believe they are the masters of existence.
 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source Atlas Shrugged
Topic guilt pain
Date 1957
Language English
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