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The women cannot go out except to go to church or to the bullfight, and even that is unusual. I consider it a very ugly custom, and if I couldn't go out as I wished, I would leave this country [Spain], if only because of that one custom of the inhabitants.
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― The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1
― The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1
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The nationalities question fit ill with Marxism. It was perhaps even more puzzling than the peasant problem. One could at least delude oneself into believing that the peasant problem was soluble in Marxian terms by extrapolating from economic data, constructing Procrustean sociologies, and predicting the inevitable splitting of the peasants along class lines. But how did one fit nationality into the Marxist scheme? Of course, according to Marxian theory national boundaries created superficial di
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― Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power
― Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power
