I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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