“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”
― Civilization in Transition
― Civilization in Transition
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
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