I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the…

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged · 1957

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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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