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“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.”
― Diary in Exile, 1935
― Diary in Exile, 1935
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
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“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
― The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
― The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
“Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.
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