She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. Ayn Rand quotes from Atlas Shruggedĭo not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it. Self-respect is something that can’t be killed. One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor. She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness… Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge. Because, in that glance, we know everything. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you…Only my love- not your answer. Man cannot survive except through his mind. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder? That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world.
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the ‘I’. The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. The point is, who will stop me?įreedom (n.): To ask nothing.
75 Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and Anthem Ayn Rand quotes from Fountainhead
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