“ 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… Ayn Rand
“ 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… Ayn Rand
“ I think the man who designed this should have committed suicide. A man who can conceive a thing as beautiful as this should never allowed it to be erected. He should not want to exist. But he will let… Ayn Rand
“ Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. Ayn Rand
“ But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspi… Ayn Rand
“ Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. Ayn Rand
“ I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
“ We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the d… Ayn Rand
“ Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like the spread of glowing water. Ayn Rand
“ There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity? Ayn Rand
“ The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood. Ayn Rand
“ The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to protect the family name(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)-th… Ayn Rand
“ 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… Ayn Rand
“ 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… Ayn Rand
“ If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and in… Ayn Rand
