"There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours"
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"I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate."
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"Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you."
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"I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live."
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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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"Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart"
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"He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done."
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"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants."
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"Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104"
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"She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt."
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"Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were."
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"The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals."
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"Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story."
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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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"Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent)."
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"Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept."
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"Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members."
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"An artist reveals his naked soul in his work."
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"It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement."
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"I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"
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