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- Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another’s values.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem
- Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Romantic Manifesto
- The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged
- 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.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
- If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
- Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), From the article "Art and Cognition" in The Romantic Manifesto
- An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
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