“What he did have time for... was the individual over the collective, the actual over the theoretical. What he detested was the conceit that future bliss justified present sacrifice and bloodshed. The future, said Herzen, was the offspring of accident and wilfulness. There was no libretto or destination, and there was always as much in front as behind.”
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