She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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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 it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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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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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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