Then she remembered.
The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.
The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us.
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if...
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
Psychologically, the choice to think or not is the choice to focus or not. Existentially, the choice to focus or not is the choice to be conscious or not. Metaphysically, the choice to be conscious or...
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.There can be no such thing as the right to enslave .
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . .
Moments later, when she saw the look of control returning to his face, she said, Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature—and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give lif...
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her t...
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world alof...
If some men do not choose to think, but survive by imitating and repeating, like trained animals, the routine of sounds and motions they learned from others, never making an effort to understand their...
I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.
I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.