Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
AYN RANDCompromise 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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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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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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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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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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 man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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