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Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

Love

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Love shows what a person truly values by reflecting the moral strengths they have developed within themselves. It is both a personal sacrifice and a reward, where one emotionally invests in another’s virtues because those qualities bring them happiness.

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