Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
AGNES SMEDLEY
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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