"It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and 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 women 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 great 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."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957).
To love a women 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 great 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."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957).
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