“Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect herself?”

“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”

“It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.”

“She does not exist for herself. She exists for and through her community.”

“Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him.”

“The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.”