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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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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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Always 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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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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