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“She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“...it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“I'd rather be kind than right.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“She thought that they had not greeted each other and that it was right. This was not a reunion, but just one moment out of something that had never been interrupted. She thought how strange it would be if she ever said “Hello” to him; one did not greet oneself each morning.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Roark, floating like a piece of driftwood, held a power greater than that of the engine in the belly of the yacht. Wynand thought: Because that is the power from which the engine has come.”
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