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The Fountainhead (1943)
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
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No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)
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The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
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The worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.
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Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
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Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.
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I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.
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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.
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They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.
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There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?
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He wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.
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The Frink National Bank Building displayed the entire history of Roman art.... It offered so many columns, pediments, friezes, tripods, gladiators, urns and volutes that it looked as if it had not been built of white marble, but squeezed out of a pastry tube.
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Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.
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Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
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Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.
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She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.
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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
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I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry
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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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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's noble existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
Ayn Rand
Born:
February 2, 1905
Died:
March 6, 1982
(aged 77)
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