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• There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my…
• Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
• In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small…
• So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four…
• But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her…
• For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
• And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare…
• Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
• Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25…
• I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
• I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully…

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