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"And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety."

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About Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher best known for The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She developed the philosophical system she called Objectivism and became an influential figure in 20th-century political and intellectual debate.

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