The Story of My Experiments with Truth

An autobiography framed as a series of personal experiments in truth and self-discipline, rather than a political memoir.

primary. Primary source text — summarized in original words, not quoted at length.
Theme: autobiography Theme: ethics Theme: non-violence Theme: self-discipline

I went in expecting a political memoir and found something stranger and more interesting: a book far more concerned with food, fear, honesty, and self-control than with politics. That's the first thing worth flagging for anyone reading it through this archive — it is, by its own framing, an account of private experiments, not a history of a movement.

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