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#1
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
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Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead
tags:
self-acceptance
,
self-awareness
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#2
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
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Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead
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#3
“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 the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
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Ayn Rand
tags:
career
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inspiration
,
life
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#4
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
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Ayn Rand,
Atlas Shrugged
tags:
john-galt
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#5
“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
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Ayn Rand,
Atlas Shrugged
tags:
atlas
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shrugged
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#6
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
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Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead
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#7
“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
―
Ayn Rand
tags:
inspirational
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#8
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
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Ayn Rand
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#9
“I am, therefore I'll think.”
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Ayn Rand
tags:
galt
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objectivism
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philosophy
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taggart
378 likes
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#10
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind”
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Robert Bolton (inventor). Ransford
tags:
belief
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idea
,
possess
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#11
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
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François de La Rochefoucauld
tags:
disguises
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secret
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#12
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
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Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld,
Maxims
tags:
love
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#13
“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#14
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
tags:
alec
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feelings
,
strength
,
tess
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women
429 likes
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#15
“...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
tags:
impulse
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judgement
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sometimes
,
strong
231 likes
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#16
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
551 likes
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#17
“I forgot the defective can be more than the whole”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
tags:
reflective
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#18
“A novel is an impression, not an argument.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#19
“Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#20
“She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.”
―
Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#21
“I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
tags:
inspirational-attitude
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#22
“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom. (Sue Bridehead)”
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Thomas Hardy
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#23
“Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#24
“She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#25
“Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#26
“The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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#27
“the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#28
“Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience”
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Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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#29
“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
―
Wallace Stevens,
The Collected Poems
tags:
poetry
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#30
“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
―
Agostinho da Silva
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