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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Ayn Rand

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

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