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  • Ayn Rand Quote #1

    ...What are you laughing at?”
    “It’s wonderful.”
    “What?”
    “The way you don’t react as everybody else does nowadays.


  • Ayn Rand Quote #2

    ...What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood?
    Why, none at all. I had a wonderful childhood. Free and peaceful and not bothered too much by anybody. Well, yes, I did feel bored very often. But I’m used to that.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #3

    ...wondering how one went about forcing one’s mind into blankness, particularly after a lifetime lived on the axiom that the constant, clearest, most ruthless function of his rational faculty was his foremost duty.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #4

    ..don’t worry about the goddamn bastards.” The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #5

    ..each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness in the world. They had not tried to find the answer and they had gone on living as if no answer were necessary. But each had known a moment when, in lonely, naked honesty, he had felt the need of an answer.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #6

    ..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #7

    ?But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #8

    A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #9

    A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep, 'virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it. ‘Value’ presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? 'Value’ presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #10

    A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #11

    A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #12

    A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #13

    A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #14

    A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #15

    A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #16

    A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #17

    A face that bore no mark of pain or fear or guilt...The shape of his mouth was pride, and more: it was as if he took pride in being proud. The angular planes of his cheeks made her think of arrogance, of tension, of scorn—yet the face had none of these qualities, it had their final sum: a look of serene determination and of certainty, and the look of a ruthless innocence which would not seek forgiveness or grant it. It was a face that had nothing to hide or to escape, a face with no fear of being seen or of seeing, so that the first thing she grasped about him was the intense perceptiveness of his eyes—he looked as if his faculty of sight were his best-loved tool and its exercise were a limitless, joyous adventure, as if his eyes imparted a superlative value to himself and to the world—to himself for his ability to see, to the world for being a place so eagerly worth seeing. It seemed to her for a moment that she was in the presence of a being who was pure consciousness—yet she had never been so aware of a man’s body.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #18

    A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #19

    A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #20

    A hint of the smile remained in his features at all times, particularly when he listened; it was a look of good-natured amusement, as if he were swiftly and patiently discarding the irrelevant in the words he heard and going straight to the point a moment ahead of the speaker.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #21

    A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #22

    A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #23

    A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #24

    A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

  • Ayn Rand Quote #25

    A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #26

    A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men;
    it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #27

    A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #28

    A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #29

    A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.

  • Ayn Rand Quote #30

    A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; its lines were so long, so fragile, so exaggerated that she looked like a stylized drawing of a woman and made the correct proportions of a normal being appear heavy and awkward beside her. She wore a plain gray suit; the contrast between its tailored severity and her appearance was deliberately exorbitant—and strangely elegant.She let the finger tips of one hand rest on the railing, a narrow hand ending the straight imperious line of her arm. She had gray eyes that were not ovals, but two long, rectangular cuts edged by parallel lines of lashes; she had an air of cold serenity and an exquisitely vicious mouth. Her face, her pale gold hair, her suit seemed to have no color, but only a hint, just on the verge of the reality of color, making the full reality seem vulgar. Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

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