“He was a very young man. He had just graduated from college – in the spring of the year 1935 – and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life – and that none had been offered to him anywhere.”

“He was a very young man. He had just graduated from college – in the spring of the year 1935 – and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life – and that none had been offered to him anywhere.”

— Ayn Rand