She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
AYN RANDJoy 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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