I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in c…

Ayn Rand
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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.580, Hamilton Books
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