It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYNew York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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