We live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life. If he doesn't build, when he has the means, it's because his life has not been what he wanted.
 Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source The Fountainhead
Topic reality understanding
Date 1943
Language English
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