Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

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• "What is morality?" she asked? "Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to what is good, integrity to stand by that good at any price."
  

• Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden peculiar emptiness which was not emptiness but silence, not despair but immobility, as if nothing inside her was destroyed, but everything stood still. Then she felt the wish to find a moments joy outside, the wish to be held as a passive specter by some work or some sight of greatness. Not to make it she thought, but to accept, not to begin but to respond, not to create but to admire. "I need it to let me go on."

• "I don't think I would mind it much now, the dying. I know it would be alot easier. Only I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it."

• He did not know whether she would wait for him, whether she would survive. But he knew that she could not live through his battle, and he could not call her to him, until it was won. So he waited, holding his love, in the place of the hope which he had no right to hold.
  

• He felt as passionately as he had ever felt, that she was the most desirable woman on earth, but what came from it was only a desire to desire her... a wish to feel, not a feeling.

• There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, bu it was only impatience not pain. She dismissed it, in the confident knowledge hat they were both working towards a future that would bring them what they wanted, including each other.