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“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”

Ayn Rand

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”

Ayn Rand

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

“Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building, when and if you are an architect?”
“Yes.”
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.”

Ayn Rand

“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Never ask people about your work.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead