"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

People, Revolution

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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

People, Revolution

"We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries."

Old, Years

"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."

Revolution, Spirit, Will, Workers

"As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity."

Day, Heroes, Kings, Now

"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."

Class, Socialism, Will

"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel."

Life,

"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."

Communication, Company, Leading, Soldiers

"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth."

Truth,

"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."

Country, Duty, France, Germany

"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."

Truth, Idea, Community, Darkness

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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