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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

- Whittaker Chambers

Other quotes by Whittaker Chambers

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

- Whittaker Chambers

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

- Whittaker Chambers

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

- Whittaker Chambers

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

- Whittaker Chambers

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

- Whittaker Chambers

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

- Whittaker Chambers

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