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In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to k...more

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If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only fo...more

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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned an...more

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You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by...more

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The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man'...more

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Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?”“Of course.”“That’s not the reaction of most peopl...more

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Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

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There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expressi...more

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When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.

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Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you lo...more

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The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of...more

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I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend o...more