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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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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and 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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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