Love Quotes by Ayn Rand

118 Love quotes by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand treats love as a celebration of personal achievement and freedom. In one hundred eighteen reflections, she argues that true affection thrives when each partner embraces their own rational self.

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That time and those people are upon you!

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I don’t approve of religion.

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It is not fools that I seek to address.

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Love is our response to our highest values.

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Do not let your fire go out.

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I am a man who does not exist for others.

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

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Great men can't be ruled.

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“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”

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Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

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“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”

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“To be able to say "I love you", one has to be able to say "I”

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I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

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There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).

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

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“But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you." "Me what?" "Just you here. Or you in…

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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,…

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Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire…

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Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They…

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Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

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I swearby my life and my love of itthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another…

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An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

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“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish…

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“In spiritual issues--(by "spiritual" I mean: "pertaining to man's consciousness")--a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for…

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“The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman…

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“I mean the one that claims the pig is the symbol of love for humanity--the creature that accepts anything. As a matter…

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“In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was.…

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To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he…

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If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to…

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“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't…

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a…

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“I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn…

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“I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom…

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I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love…

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“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.…

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“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those…

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“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and…

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“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw…

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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 person's…

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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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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

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

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