So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
AGNES SMEDLEYAlways before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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