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Charity must be voluntary.

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

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I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

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Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

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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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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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But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, i...more

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And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unna...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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What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual e...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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Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.