Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, on Work & Integrity.

Howard Roark's advice...

to Peter Keating-

Never ask people about your work (33).

It's I who have destroyed you, by helping you (611).

general:

Show me your achievement- and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.... It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Pain only goes down to a certain point.

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'

Dominique comments on Roark's work:

There is not a person in New York City who should be allowed to live in this building (287).

Ellsworth Toohey:

A leash is only a rope with a noose on both ends.

I don't want to be on a leash, I want to be free. And I want to own myself, and do what I love, I want to be my own boss and a free agent... it is not in my Pisces nature to be hemmed in by anything - be it a boyfriend, employment, location -

so?

so I am reintroducing myself to myself, and every day things become more clear.

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