# Quote — Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

> Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

- Author: [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md)
- Book: [The Romantic Manifesto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-romantic-manifesto.md)
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> Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

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> Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.

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> Art is man's metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.

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