It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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