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1. Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore and The Russian People and Socialism, trans. Moura Budberg and Richard Wollheim (1847–51; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 122.
The one blessing that remained for these people who were strangers to their own times, was a quiet conscience, the consoling knowledge that they had not been afraid of the truth, that having once grasped it they had found the strength to endure it and remain faithful to it.1