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“Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”

Ayn Rand

“Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

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

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

Ayn Rand book The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 123

“Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

“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.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Variant: 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.
Source: Atlas Shrugged

“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”

Ayn Rand

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

“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”

Ayn Rand

“It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

“There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

Ayn Rand

“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 not" is the choice of life or death.”

Ayn Rand

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