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

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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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Concerned Country Destiny Ignorant Insignificant Million Unimportant
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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Bad Holding Leading Little Newspaper Pamphlet Paper Radical Socialist Tract
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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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
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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Army Boy Doctor Hospital Man Remove Until Wounded
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Call Country Everybody Feel Safe Spy Surveillance Under
The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subject Technical Theories Treated
Friendship is far more human.
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Far Friendship Human More
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Man Masculine May Objection
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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Dead Dialect Erased Now Search Song Tongue Year
There 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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Found Indian Man Often Qualities Refined Sex Strong Until
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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Better Denied Family Nobler People Search Song Thing Thought Year
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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Crushed Decent Developed Environment Inarticulate Made System Thousand Women
There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Belief Bond Chief Detested Man Sex Woman
The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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Fight Highest Human Making Reason Side Stature Unable

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