![]() ![]() ![]() He did not know why wanted Roark to fail.'' ''Ellsworth Toohey, champion of the downtrodden, was one of the few people who understood Roark and was smart enough to know why he wanted Roark destroyed. Peter Keating sensed his own mediocrity without recognizing it. He built for his clients in order to live Roark lived only in order to build for himself. Keating was charming, beloved of men and of women but he lived only in the reflection of others. Perhaps that is why he was hated - because he needed no one, depended on no one, wanted no one, and to people who live on the borrowed vision of others such a man is a challenge and a danger.'' ''Peter Keating, one of the youngest and most successful architects in New York, depended on Roark, but also feared him. ![]() No opinion except his own either disturbed or influenced him. In fact, it did not bother him that people tried to. ![]() He knew he was right with the same certainty that he knew he had two hands with which to create. It is the story of Howard Roark, Architect - a man whose sole aim in life was to build, and to build not in the tradition of the past but only in the tradition of Howard Roark. ''This book is based on a challenging belief in the importance of selfishness, on the provocative idea that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. ![]()
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