“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”

—  Ayn Rand , book The Fountainhead

Variant: The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
Source: The Fountainhead

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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982

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