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"If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat."
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."

"Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation."

"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."

"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."

"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."

"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish."
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