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I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

Ayn Rand
Running, Real, Vision
Ayn Rand (2005). “The Early Ayn Rand: Revised Edition: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction”, p.281, Penguin
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run