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!
AGNES SMEDLEYBut 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Friendship is far more human.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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I 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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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