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“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became…

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“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…

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“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…

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“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just…

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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally…

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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