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Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.
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He, too, stood looking at her for a moment—and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...
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I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
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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.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements.
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The special quality one feels for the dead, he thought, is that no action is possible any longer.
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Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
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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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There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
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Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
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An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.
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Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
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Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.
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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective sex were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.
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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
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An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
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She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
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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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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are." - John Gault
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I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Ayn Rand
Born:
February 2, 1905
Died:
March 6, 1982
(aged 77)
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