One instance, from V.I.:
At 10:38 AM -0800 12/23/03, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>> Lionel Trilling in, "The Liberal Imaginstion, " quotes this from
>>Comrade Lenin.
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>> "I know of nothing more beautiful than the Appassionata, I could
>>hear it every day. It is marvellous, unearthly music. Every time I
>>hear these notes, I think with pride and perhaps childlike naivete,
>>that it is wonderful what man can accomplish. But I cannot listen to
>>music often, it affects my nerves. I want to say amiable stupidities
>>and stroke the heads of the people who can create such beauty in a
>>filthy hell. But today is not the time to stroke people's heads;
>>today hands descend to split skulls open, split them open
>>ruthlessly, although opposition to all violence is our ultimate
>>ideal-it is a hellishly hard task."
>>
>>Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, quoted in Maxim Gorky, Days with Lenin
>>http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/archives20031214.shtml
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