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“It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Pain , Sadness , Question

“I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Life

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Life , Smile

“A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race—and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”

Ayn Rand

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The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Law , Freedom

“She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

People

“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Feeling

“You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Feeling , Thinking , Light

“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”

Ayn Rand
Feeling , Change

“Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Pleasure , Feeling , Passion

“Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.”

Ayn Rand book Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

Courage

“The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.”

Ayn Rand
Evil

“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.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead (1943).
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Context: That particular sense of sacred rapture men say they experience in contemplating nature- I've never received it from nature, only from. Buildings, Skyscrapers. I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pest-hole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.

World , Light

“I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.”

Ayn Rand book We the Living

Source: We the Living

“That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”

Ayn Rand
Truth , Faith , Error

“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Loneliness