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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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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.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He describes the intense and fulfilling experience of living under high pressure during his activist years.

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