Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RANDLove 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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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 basic need of the creator is independence.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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