I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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 always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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