She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RANDMen who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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To 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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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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 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 hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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