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“Dont you know that most people take most things because thats whats given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your ow...”
“The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Mans first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he w...”
“There is noroom for the love of others within the tight, crowded misers hole of a privateego. Be empty in order to be filled. He that loveth his life shall lose it; andhe that hateth his life in th...”
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
“A mans spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.”
“Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not th...”
“..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”
“Youre so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on Gods part that theres one person who matches inside and out.”
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they ca...”
“The faces stood out, separate, lonely, no two alike. Behind each, there were the years of a life lived or half over, effort, hope and an attempt, honest or dishonest, but an attempt. It had left on...”
“And, after all, youve got to live.Not that way, said Roark.”
“I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...I want you like an animal...or a whore.”
“When they lay in bed together it wasas it had to be, as the nature of the act demandedan act of violence. It was surrender, made the more complete by the force of their resistance. It was an act of...”
“And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this moment; if they knew that she was thinking of a man in a quarry, thinking of his body with a shar...”
“If you want my advice, Peter, he said at last, youve made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Dont you know what you want? How can you stand it...”
“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your...”
“A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.”
“The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned...”
“I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. Ive always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. Ive always recognized it at onceand its ...”
“All that which proceeds from mans independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from mans dependence upon men is evil.”
