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| 25 | 2228 | "View more quotes about love">Love is not necessarily conjoined with weakness as those who wish to weaken men would have you believe," I said. |
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| 25 | 2225 | "I wonder who truly loves himself, and women," she whispered, "he who is true to himself and his nature, refusing to deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, and who fulfills women, as what they really are, or he who betrays himself, who lies to himself and who denies the true needs of women?" "Aside from special definitions, definitions which plead political causes," I said, "the answer seems fairly obvious. |
| 25 | 2226 | He most loves himself and respects himself who is true to himself, and he most loves women, and cares for them, it would seem, who understands them for what they are, truly, and fulfills them, as what they truly are". |
| 25 | 2227 | "That would seem so to me, too," she said. |
| 25 | 2228 | "Love is not necessarily conjoined with weakness as those who wish to weaken men would have you believe," I said. |
| 25 | 2229 | "Love can be conjoined with strength. |
| 25 | 2230 | And that is the love of the strong man, the master, not the weakling. |
| 25 | 2231 | And this will remain true, always, in its own place, and in its own terms, regardless of the lies taught children, the restriction of educational posts to adherents, the pervasive propaganda, the selective allocation of research grants, the denial of freedoms and the suppression of alternative views, the furthering of approved opinions and careers, and the engineered distortions of language, intended to subvert nature, language used as a conditioning device, to brainwash future generations and preclude them from access even to concepts and categories in which they might strive to understand reality as it is, as facts, and not as the preferences of weaklings, dazzled by abstractions, the celebrants of verbalisms, the devotees of the unnatural, the mindlessly contented victim of a priori absurdities, would have it. |