It seemed to me that in your arms I felt your entire youthful world. Its despotism, its egoism, its desperate thirst for happiness—all of this was in your caresses. Your love is like murder. But – I love you, Lenni.
Alexander Bogdanov, Loren R. Graham, Richard Stites (1908/1984). Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia. p. 93