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This is a beautiful thought on the consequences of sacrificing one's love for another's happiness. I have always felt it deeply, and thought I would share it now, as the current conflict that's going on in Dev's mind is related to this.
Brief description for those who are not aware: The 3 characters in the story are Francisco D'Anconia, John Galt and Dagny Taggart. Dagny and Francisco were lovers many years back, but now John and Dagny love each other, though not declared openly yet. Here, John shows very clearly that he would not sacrifice his love for Francisco, even though they are lifelong friends, and he knows that Francisco's first love is Dagny. This passage is on Dagny's realization that John will not sacrifice her.
"she had seen, with the sudden, immediate vividness of sensory perception, an exact picture of what the code of self-sacrifice would have meant, if enacted by the three of them. Galt, giving up the woman he wanted, for the sake of his friend, faking his greatest feeling out of existence and himself out of her life, no matter what the cost to him and to her, then dragging the rest of his years through the waste of the unreached and unfulfilled - she, turning for consolation to a second choice, faking a love she did not feel, being willing to fake, since her will to self-decite was the essential required for Galt's self-sacrifice, then living out her years in hopeless longing, accepting, as relief for an unhealing wound, some momments of weary affection, plus the tenet that love is futile and happiness is not to be found on earth - Francisco, struggling in the elusive fog of a counterfeit reality, his life a fraud staged by the two who were dearest to him and most trusted, struggling to grasp what was missing from his happiness, struggling down the brittle scaffold of a lie over the abyss of the discovery that he was not the man she loved, but only a resented substitute, half-charity-patient, half-crutch, his perceptiveness becoming his danger and only his surrender to lethargic stupidity protecting the shoddy structure of his joy, struggling an dgoving up and settling into the dreary routine of the conviction that fulfillment is impossible....-the three of them, who had had all the gifts of existence spread out before them, ending up, as embittered hulks, who cry in despair that life is frustration...."
Okay, this is the extreme, but also possible....your comments?
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