It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. …

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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.109, Penguin
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