There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Friendship is far more human.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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