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Any group or "collective", la...

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

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The more neurotic and evasive...

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Style is not an end in itself...

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

The writer who develops a bea...

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

...only the pleasure which pr...

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

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In all proper relationships t...

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

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It is easier to donate a few ...

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

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The fortune my spirit is not ...

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

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Emotions are not tools of cog...

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

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Life is the reward of virtue....

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

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Dominique as Gail looks at he...

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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In the name of the values tha...

In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.

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What I want you to understand...

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

A good novel is an indivisibl...

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

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Self respect is something tha...

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

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Romantic art is always styliz...

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

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There's only one passion in m...

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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There is a fundamental moral ...

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level.

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When you have civilized men f...

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

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The men who attempt to surviv...

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

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