She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RANDTo say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Man 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.
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