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The Fountainhead (1943)
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But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.
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Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don't have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
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Show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
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Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
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It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.
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I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.
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Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.
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When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.
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She was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends.
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The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
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No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
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It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious
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In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
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The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him: the reasoning mind.
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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.
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Ayn Rand
Born:
February 2, 1905
Died:
March 6, 1982
(aged 77)
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