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“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.” quote by George Orwell — Download Open image

““Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.””

George Orwell

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