0 ratings (0.0 avg)
0 reviews

William E.

Add friend

William’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (0)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (0)

Stats | More…

“And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

tags: comedy, defiance, joy, rebellion, reverence, tragic

6 likes

“Toil, comrade,” he said, “is the highest aim of our lives. Who does not toil, shall not eat.” The book was filled. The official applied his rubber stamp to the last page. The stamp bore a globe overshadowed by a crossed sickle and hammer.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

3 likes

“I always know what I want. And when you know what you want - you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

8 likes

“I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

6 likes

“Your subconscious is like a computer—more complex a computer than men can build—and its main function is the integration of your ideas. Who programs it? Your conscious mind. If you default, if you don’t reach any firm convictions, your subconscious is programmed by chance—and you deliver yourself into the power of ideas you do not know you have accepted. But one way or the other, your computer gives you print-outs, daily and hourly, in the form of emotions—which are lightning-like estimates of the things around you, calculated according to your values. If you programmed your computer by conscious thinking, you know the nature of your values and emotions. If you didn’t, you don’t.”
― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It

6 likes

More of William’s quotes…