I skimmed to the end of the book... its over

[ratoncita]

"Lve is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else. Let a man corrupt hisvalues and his view of eixstence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment but self-denial, that virtue consists, not of pride but of pity or pain or weakness of sacrifice, that the noblest love is born not of admiration, but in charity, not in response to values but in response to flaws- and he will have cut himself in two.
His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find... He has equated virtue with pain and he will feel that vice is the only real pleasure."

-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged