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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Joy is not the absence of pain.

“Galt’s Speech”
For the New Intellectual, 135

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. You, who have lost the concept of the difference, you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power — and secretly add that fear is the more “practical” — you do not wish to live, and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned.

“Galt’s Speech”
For the New Intellectual, 135
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