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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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They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of cha...more

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She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the...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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He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, list...more