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Russian Writer February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982

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It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. Ayn Rand
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again. Ayn Rand
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can..."
Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can one feel truly light. Ayn Rand
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement. Ayn Rand
He felt something dark and leering in the manner with which people spoke of Prescott's genius; as if they were not doing homage to Prescott, but spitting upon genius. For once, Keating could not follow people; it was too clear, even to him, that public favor had ceased being a recognition of merit, that it had become almost a brand of shame. Ayn Rand
I'm going to die," he said aloud--and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would not grant him even the dignity of seriousness. It was an anonymous moment; a few minutes ago, he had held a toothbrush in that hand; now he held a gun with the same casual indifference. Ayn Rand
Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence... Ayn Rand
That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save..."
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "She did not know what it was about him that had always made..."
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it..."
If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt) Ayn Rand
It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance whatever in the vast scheme of the universe, that no possible significance can be attached to his activities, that it does not matter whether he lives or dies, he will become much more? tractable. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the..."
Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day Ayn Rand

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