- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
- Bitter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't write. I just wandered about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
- France
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
- Authorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020