We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDMan 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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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 could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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Compromise 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.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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