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About Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Ayn Rand, born Alice O'Connor, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing Objectivism, the philosophical system she named. Her work brought together storytelling and philosophy, and she became closely associated with a body of ideas that she presented as Objectivism. Her writing is known for combining fiction with arguments about reason, individualism, and the role of philosophy in life.
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- “At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!”Ayn Rand
- “Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you thi…”Ayn Rand
- “Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindles…”Ayn Rand
- “We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”Ayn Rand
Desire: more sayings
- “We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether tho…”William Godwin
- “It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do no…”Judith Herman
- “I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?”Patrick Rothfuss
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Books by Ayn Rand
Anthem
1995
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
1992
The Fountainhead
2004
We the living
2009
For the New Intellectual
1963