| | What are your comments and thoughts about the second hander in relation to the below snips from the fountain head?
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He stood looking at her. She knew that he did not see her. No, she thought, it was not that exactly. He always looked straight at people and his damnable eyes never missed a thing, it was only that he made people feel as if they did not exist. He just stood looking. He would not answer.
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I know why I can't stand the silence, he thought. It's because it makes no difference to her at all whether I speak or not; as if I didn't exist and never had existed... the thing more inconceivable than one's death—never to have been born.... He felt a sudden, desperate desire which he could identify—a desire to be real to her.
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A form of mutual dependence. They need ties. They've got to force their miserable little personalities on every single person they meet. The independent man kills them—because they don't exist within him and that's the only form of existence they know.
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"He's just an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense"—said every second-hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.
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Rulers of men are not egotists. They create nothing. They exist entirely through the persons of others.
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