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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest. ”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― 1984
― 1984
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