contradiction...

"You suffer fromthe popular delusion of believing that things can be understood. You do not grasp the fact that the universe is a solid contradiction"
"A contradiction of what?"
"Of it self."
[...]
"The purpose of philosophy is not to seek knowledge, but to prove that knowledge is impossible to man"
"But when we prove it," "what's going to be left?"
"Instinct"
[...]
"The literature of the past, was a shallow faud. It whitewashed life in order to please the money tycoons whom it served. Morality, free will, achievement, happy endings, and man as some sortvof heroic being-all that stuff is laughable to us. Our age has given depth to literature for the first time, by exposing the real essence of life."
"What is the real essence of life?"
"Suffering. Defeat and suffering."
"But... but why? People are happy... sometimes...aren't they?."
"That is a delusion of those whose emotions are superficial."
[...]
"If everything is frustration, what is there to live for?"
"brother-love."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Strugged