“Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead (Primary source)
Architect Howard Roark refuses to compromise his innovative designs for conventional styles, battling the architectural establishment and society’s pressure to conform. The novel champions individual creativity and integrity against collectivist mediocrity and social conformity.
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“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense. An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
— Ayn Rand Primary source“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.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I am always in love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Love the day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary sourceFriendship Alone Loneliness Solitude