It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere 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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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