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The Letters of Ayn Rand

This volume compiles a selection of letters written by Ayn Rand, spanning several decades of her life. The correspondence includes exchanges with family, friends, colleagues, and public figures, revealing her views on philosophy, literature, politics, and her own works. The letters provide a window into Rand's intellectual development, her interactions with contemporaries, and her personal reflections, serving as a supplementary resource for understanding her ideas and personality beyond her published fiction and nonfiction. more

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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand

American novelist and philosopher, known for her novels and philosophical ideas. Her works emphasize individualism, free markets, and rationalism, and have had a profound impact on politics and philosophy in the late 20th century. more

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“the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.”

“Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.”