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“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: absurd

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: political

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“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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