During those two years it was life under high pressure--that exuberance of life when one feels at every moment the full throbbing of all the fibres of the inner self, and when life is really worth living.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “During those two years it was life under high pressure--that exuberance of life when one feels at every moment the full…”
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He describes the intense and fulfilling experience of living under high pressure during his activist years.
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