For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEYNew York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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