Selfishness
Jun. 25th, 2009 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toujours_nigel
Title: Selfishness
Fandom: Atlas Shrugged.
Pairings: Francisco D'Anconia/Hank Rearden.
Disclaimer: notminenotminenotmine
Love is to be given for virtue, not vice—for strength, for beauty, for will and determination, not despite them. To love someone for their weaknesses, is degradation of lover and beloved. If you do not love who you admire, who then do you love? Love is not charity, though caritas might be love. Eros is possession—I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. Love one you despise and you lower yourself. Desire one unworthy and… and Dagny and John are dishonoured.
Fandom: Atlas Shrugged.
Pairings: Francisco D'Anconia/Hank Rearden.
Disclaimer: notminenotminenotmine
Love is to be given for virtue, not vice—for strength, for beauty, for will and determination, not despite them. To love someone for their weaknesses, is degradation of lover and beloved. If you do not love who you admire, who then do you love? Love is not charity, though caritas might be love. Eros is possession—I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. Love one you despise and you lower yourself. Desire one unworthy and… and Dagny and John are dishonoured.
Admire, desire, love Henry Rearden. Denial of truth is a weakness. Francisco D’Anconia is not weak.
