I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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