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“In Newspeak there is no word for ‘Science’. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.”
― 1984
― 1984
“an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. In”
― 1984
― 1984
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.”
― Animal Farm and 1984
― Animal Farm and 1984
“general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By”
― 1984
― 1984
“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”
― 1984
― 1984
Sheila’s 2025 Year in Books
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263 books
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91 books
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107 books
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