I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYI joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a 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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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