She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
Ayn RandMy morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
Ayn RandBecause the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
Ayn RandOnly the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand