“It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”

—  Ayn Rand , book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

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