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.
AYN RANDTo sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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