Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ✨ Ayn Rand (19…

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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.109, Penguin
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.109, Penguin

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