Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Saint Petersburg
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Awards
- 🏆 Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference"
"Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what t…"
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists o…"
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for th…"
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the grea…"
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1905
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Died
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