I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYI shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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