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Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'
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Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
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Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.
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If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with
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but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
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This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
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Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
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What do I think of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.
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