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The truth is, I don’t have a catchy method of conversing and yet, unfortunately, suffer on a minute-to-minute basis the agony of the unexpressed thought.
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― 1984
― 1984
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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