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“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984”
― Orwell, 1984

“For long periods, the upper class seems to be firmly in power. [...] It is then overthrown by the middle class, which enlists the lower class on its side, making it believe that it is fighting for freedom and Justice …”
― Orwell, 1984

“They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you...There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover.”
― orwell

“A hierarchical society was only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance”
― Orwell, 1984