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“I saw the bluebird of my last hope fly out the window of the little apartment - an insignificant bird, but one I had raised with care and that the winds of high decisions were taking from my hands. Because the authorities had not even allowed me that innocuous dream.”

“If you ever have a borzoi, you will never forget me.”

“We are strong because hate is invincible.”

“My hate will never allow me to work to build the new society. But it’s the best weapon to destroy that other society and that’s why I’ve turned all of you my children into what you are, the children of hate.”

“The man assured him, with the greatest seriousness, that he had planned it all, but that the devil had been collaborating with them.”

“She was elemental in making me the person who seemed like the one I had always wanted to be, the one who, even now, I have most liked being.”

I felt I would burst if I didn’t pop the pus-filled pimple of fear.

Trotsky has lost so many friends that I wonder if the ideology is worth it. Is it the ideology or is it just Trotsky?