I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere 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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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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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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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