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Love Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand says you must first know yourself before you can say 'I love you.' She links love to personal value and independence, insisting that love is an act of philosophy, not a sacrifice for others. Her words stress that love grows from self‑respect.

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Great men can't be ruled.

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“Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .”

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I am a man who does not exist for others.

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We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

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All work is an act of philosophy.

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You love only those who deserve it.

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That time and those people are upon you!

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Do not let your fire go out.

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It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

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Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

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“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

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“Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values.”

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Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

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“And someday the world will discover that without thought there can be no love.”

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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

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Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

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The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

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“God, I've missed you!" he said, and knew that he had, every day since he'd seen her last and most of all,…

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You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;…

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“Love is our response to our highest values. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.”

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“You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond…

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He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored…

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“Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and…

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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in…

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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,…

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“He wondered whether he really liked his mother. But she was his mother and this fact was recognized by everybody as meaning…

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Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that…

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“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's…

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your…

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Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange…

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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the…

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“Love is a response to values. The amoralist’s actual self-appraisal is revealed in his abnormal need to be loved (but not in…

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“Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing…

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Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,…

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“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by…

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“When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to…

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“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person…

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“She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her fists beat…

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“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.