“Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for? ”
― Memoirs of a Revolutionist
― Memoirs of a Revolutionist
“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
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“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.”
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“I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.”
― Crush
― Crush
“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
― Memoirs of a Revolutionist
― Memoirs of a Revolutionist
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