“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

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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982

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