"The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort."
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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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"It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you."
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"I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure."
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"The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other."
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"There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason."
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"No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul."
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"She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken."
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"Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love."
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