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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Leon Trotsky

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Determination Forever Method Usage
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Camp Character Revolution Service
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Beautiful Breathe Fight Future Happiness Hope Horizon
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Eyes Reach Socialism State
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness

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