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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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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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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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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 yo...more

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But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I ...more

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There is noroom for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser’s hole of a privateego. Be empty in order to be filled. ’He that loveth his lif...more

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Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-makin...more

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She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.