"Who doesn’t hate failure’? Should one love it? Is there a nation on earth that doesn’t hate it? Surely, one would have to say that failure is un-British or un-French or un-Chinese. I can think of only one nation to whom this would not apply: failure is not un-Russian (in a sense which is deeper than politics)."
~ Ayn Rand, on her country of birth, from her essay 'Apollo & Dionysus'
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I doubt Russia is unique in this regard. It’s just one country she was most familiar with and had the most impact on her.
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