I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.
I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don__ want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don__ really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it__ better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.
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I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don__ want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don__ really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it__ better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.
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