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There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity. — Ayn Rand

She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland. — Ayn Rand

It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. — Ayn Rand

She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice. — Ayn Rand

Didn't you enjoy meeting the young men?"
"What men? There wasn't a man there I couldn't squash ten of. — Ayn Rand

What are you laughing at?"
"It's wonderful."
"What?"
"The way you don't react as everybody else does nowadays. — Ayn Rand

She had always avoided personal reactions, but she was forced to break her rule when she saw the expression on his face. She burst out laughing. — Ayn Rand

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind. — Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand

Tension seemed natural to her, not a sign of anxiety, but a sign of enjoyment ... — Ayn Rand

They seemed to want her approval, without having to know whether she approved or not. — Ayn Rand

Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles. — Dagny Scott Barrios

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand

She had always been ... the motive power of her own happiness. — Ayn Rand

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood. — Ayn Rand

No battle was hard, no decision was dangerous where there was no soggy uncertainty, no shapeless evasion to encounter. — Ayn Rand

But why?"
"You goddamn fool, do you think I consider their question debatable? — Ayn Rand

You always play it open, don't you?" he asked.
"I've never noticed you doing otherwise."
"I thought I was the only one who could afford to. — Ayn Rand

She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary. — Ayn Rand

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel. — Ayn Rand

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it. — Ayn Rand

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment. — Ayn Rand

She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence. — Ayn Rand

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice. — Ayn Rand

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code.. — Ayn Rand

There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain. — Ayn Rand

There was so calm, so natural, so total a certainty in the sound of her voice that the mere sound seemed to carry an immense persuasiveness. — Ayn Rand

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth. — Ayn Rand

She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness. — Ayn Rand