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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.

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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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Ashamed Blood Fault Forming Life Looking Part Played Virtue Way
I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Hard Let Money Other Ruin Ruined Speak
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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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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Beautiful Beauty Belong Die Sake
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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Adventure Color Enemies Enemy Lost Newness Settled Unknown
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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First Slan Street The Event Week Worker
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Country Desire Imagination Much
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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Concerned Country Destiny Ignorant Insignificant Million Unimportant
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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Body Boy Fighting Girl Man Strength Tried
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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Anything Awful Eternity Fascinating Hear Living Living Right Love Person Tortue
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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