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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: And when spring comes, one feels more strongly than ever the want of liberty.

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And when spring comes, one feels more strongly than ever the want of liberty.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He expresses the intensified longing for freedom that comes with the arrival of spring during imprisonment.

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