Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do — you could put me through hell if you demanded them and I had to refuse you, as I would. Through utter hell, Dominique. Does that please you? Why do you want to know whether you own me? It's so simple. Of course you do. All of me that can be owned. You'll never demand anything else. But you want to know whether you could make me suffer. You could. What of it?" The words did not sound like surrender, because they were not torn out of him, but admitted simply and willingly. She felt no thrill of conquest; she felt herself owned more than ever, by a man who could say these things, know them to be true, and still remain controlled and controlling — as she wanted him to remain.
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AYN RAND If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa... AYN RAND We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We a... AYN RAND All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean th... AYN RAND If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing. AYN RAND Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr... AYN RAND If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ru... AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. AYN RAND It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif... AYN RAND Beauty is a sense of harmony. AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. AYN RAND At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the... AYN RAND In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th... AYN RAND When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ... AYN RAND I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s... AYN RAND If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me ... AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l... AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ... AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is
the man who disagr... AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's... AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'... AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ... AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. AYN RAND