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Alexander Herzen speaks to political refugee
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Independence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now there isn’t a squeak or pinpoint of light.
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I have lost every illusion dear to me. I’m forty. I will dwell in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden, and the world will hear no more of me.
For full extended monologue, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Salvage. Act 1, “February 1853.� 2002.
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