It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDShe knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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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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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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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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