You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
AYN RANDMan will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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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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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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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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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