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I will not die, it's the world that will end. paraphrase of unknown philosopher
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
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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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Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
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All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.
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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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If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.
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All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.
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Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
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Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.
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Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.
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There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.
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A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!
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The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
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Thinking men cannot be ruled ambitious men do not stagnate.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.
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To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
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