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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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Dominique as Gail looks at her ... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.
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When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.
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You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.
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She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.
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I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
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She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
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My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
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America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
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The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.
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What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.
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The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.
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