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Ayn Rand
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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
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The Fountainhead
“Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.”
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“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.”
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“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we...”
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
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“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
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“We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
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“It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.”
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“Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count?”
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“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain.”
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“You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
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“Patience is always rewarded and romance is just around the corner.”
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“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
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“Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”
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The Fountainhead
“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my...”
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“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered—and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”
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“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.”
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“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.”
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“It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.”
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“They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want.”
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“Never ask people. Not about your work.”
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“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference.”
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“The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.”
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“Worry is a waste of emotional reserves.”
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“Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it.”
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“She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.”
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“A house can have integrity, just like a person . . . and just as seldom.”
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“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
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“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent.”
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“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
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“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”
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“I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”
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“even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness”
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“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life.”
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“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
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“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”
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“We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything.”
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“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.”
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“Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it— the total passion for the total height—you're incapable of anything less.”
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“Every loneliness is a pinnacle.”
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“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the halfway, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”
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“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”
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“Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.”
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“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”
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“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”
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“But whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.”
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“The unrecognized genius-that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?”
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“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too.”
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“The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.”
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“Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.”
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