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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in th...more

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You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they kno...more

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Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless...more

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It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to s...more

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An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

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I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that ...more

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Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and...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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Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped...more

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Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

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He’s not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no j...more

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A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

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And isn’t that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, b...more

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He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmo...more