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This reads as a harsh recognition of work that is endured rather than fulfilled. It points to the damage of a life where getting through the day becomes the only measure of success, and to the moral protest against any routine that reduces a person to survival. It lands in jobs or obligations so draining that relief, not satisfaction, is the only reward.
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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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Books by Ayn Rand
Anthem
1995
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
1992
The Fountainhead
2004
We the living
2009
For the New Intellectual
1963