All 11 Uses of
atone
in
Atlas Shrugged
- But by the time he raised his head-and before he saw the look of admiration in her eyes, the open look he had begged for, the look of forgiveness-he destroyed his single moment's atonement by adding in a voice of drawing-room sarcasm, "Apparently, the young man had no desire to work for the good of society or the welfare of science.†
Chpt 2.1
- Yet I do, and I have no solution, no atonement to offer.†
Chpt 2.3
- It's I who've broken my word, so I will atone for it to the extent I can.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- If it's any kind of atonement, which it isn't …. whatever I made you suffer, that's how I paid for it …. by knowing what I was doing to you and having to do it …. and waiting, waiting to ….†
Chpt 2.8
- He was looking at her, as if he were seeing her body as she stood before him, even though his eyes were directed at her face, and his glance told her what form of atonement and surrender he was seeing in the future.†
Chpt 2.9
- But we-we, who must atone for the guilt of ability-we will work to support him as he orders, with his pleasure as our only reward.†
Chpt 3.1
- I can't ask you to forgive me, we're far beyond such terms-and the only atonement I can offer you is the fact that I am happy.†
Chpt 3.3
- Don't speak of atonement, you have not hurt me, your mistakes came from your magnificent integrity under the torture of an impossible code-and your fight against it did not bring me suffering, it brought me the feeling I've found too seldom: admiration.†
Chpt 3.3
- We wish we could atone for it.†
Chpt 3.6
- "If you still want me to explain it, Mother," he said very quietly, "if you're still hoping that I won't be cruel enough to name what you're pretending not to know, then here's what's wrong with your idea of forgiveness: You regret that you've hurt me and, as your atonement for it, you ask that I offer myself to total immolation."†
Chpt 3.6
- It does not matter who then becomes the profiteer on his renounced glory and tormented soul, a mystic God with some incomprehensible design or any passer-by whose rotting sores are held as some inexplicable claim upon him-it does not matter, the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance, atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts, his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(atone) to fix or make up for a wrong -- especially a sin (even if nothing can be done to make up for the wrong other than to show regret)