"'It's only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of..." - Ayn Rand

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"It's only human," you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept "human" mean the weakling, the fool, the rotter, the liar, the failure, the coward, the fraud, and to exile from the human rance the hero, the thinker, the producer, the inventor, the strong, the purposeful, the pure - as if "to feel" were human, but to think were not, as if to fail were human, but to succeed were not, as if corruption were human, but virtue were not - as if the premise of death were proper to man, but the premise of life were not. - Ayn Rand


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  • Posted by renato 9 years, 4 months ago
    In Brazilian Portuguese: "É da natureza humana!", grita-se para defender depravações, atingindo um estágio de auto-depreciação onde se distorce o conceito de humanidade para abrigar o fraco, o tolo, o malfeitor, o mentiroso, o fracassado, o covarde, o fraudador, e excluir desta humanidade o herói, o pensador, aquele que produz, o inventor, o forte, o determinado, o puro -- como se "sentir" seja humano, mas "pensar" não o seja, como se falhar seja humano, mas ter sucesso não o seja, como se ser corrupto seja humano, mas ser correto não o seja -- como se o pressuposto da morte seja intrínseco ao homem, mas que o pressuposto da vida não o seja.
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