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Agnes Smedley

"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."

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"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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"More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international."
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