My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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