She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RANDSelf respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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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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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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