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Leon Trotsky on Birthday

1879–1940 Russia

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Trotsky's Diary in Exile — 1935 (1958)

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Diary in Exile (1959)

Be it even over our bleaching bones the truth will triumph! We will blaze the trail for it. It will conquer! Under all the severe blows of fate, I shall be happy as in the best days of my youth! Because, my friends, the highest human happiness is not the exploitation of the present but the preparation of the future.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leon Trotsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.