But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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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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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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