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In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. (Ayn Rand)
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. View quote
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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. View quote
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There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man. View quote
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Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. View quote
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. View quote
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A gun is not an argument. View quote
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. View quote
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Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. View quote
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. View quote
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. (Ayn Rand)
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. View quote
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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. View quote
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I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life. View quote
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He never felt lonliness except when he was happy. View quote
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A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack. View quote
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Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. View quote
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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational. View quote
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner! View quote
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The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. View quote
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I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing. (Ayn Rand)
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. View quote
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A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. View quote
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It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. View quote
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The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. View quote
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