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In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.


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We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.



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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.



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



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



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



I saw the dead without really seeing them.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.



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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.





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