Quotes from book
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. Atlas Shrugged includes elements of science fiction, mystery, and romance, and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction.
“You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.”
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“He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.”
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“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…”
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“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
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“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
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The Fountainhead (1943).
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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.
“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
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“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
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“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
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“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
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