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Ayn Rand
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
Stop
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
Happiness
Purpose
Pain
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
Teach
Suffer
Enjoy
Live
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand
Root
Evil
Think
Money
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand
Control
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
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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 character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand
Reward
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Virtue
Another
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property
Ayn Rand
Body
Result
Right
Exist
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand
Being
Beyond
Power
Only
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
State
Value
Which
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
You
Think
Your
Will
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Ayn Rand
Success
Best
Opportunity
The
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
Ayn Rand
You
Walk
People
Look
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
Dream
Heaven
Greatness
Earth
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov
Love
Matter
Memory
More
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov
Visible
Words
Pages
Blank
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Vladimir Nabokov
Believe
Confess
Time
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Sunrise
Death
Even
Great
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov
Style
Prose
Fancy
Count
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
Ideas
Book
Essence
Great
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Rocks
Cradle
Light
Sense
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
Surface
Fully
Home
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
African
Dreams
Genius
Snow
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir Nabokov
Life
Delight
Enjoy
Order
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Vladimir Nabokov
Wave
Explain
Sea
Whole
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov
More
Perilous
Revelation
Revolution
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Vladimir Nabokov
Literature
Only
School
Talent
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
Passions
Man
Butterflies
Known
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
Vast
Obscure
Series
Existence
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov
Poet
Precision
Scientist
Writer
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov
Involves
Irrational
Mysteries
Perceived
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov
Associated
Once
Past
Smell
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
Write
Speak
Author
Child
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
Work
Art
Society
Only
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov
Safe
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Trash
Power
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov
Detail
Hard
Submit
Exceed
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov
Flesh
Love
Actual
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Vladimir Nabokov
Activity
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Group
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
Vladimir Nabokov
Evolution
Nonsense
Sense
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov
World
Fiction
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Likely
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Vladimir Nabokov
Blush
Contain
First
Matter
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Exists
State
Being
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov
Harm
Ends
Feel
Happy
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Vladimir Nabokov
Movie
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Been
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
Vladimir Nabokov
Pine
Item
After
World
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Admirable
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Vladimir Nabokov
Tone
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Gifted
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov
Means
Class
Know
Letting
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Nikita Khrushchev
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