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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Man is the cruelest animal.”
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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