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“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”
― 1984
― 1984
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
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“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― 1984
― 1984

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
― Shooting an Elephant
― Shooting an Elephant

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