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“From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possiblity of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.”
― 1984
― 1984
“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.”
― 1984
― 1984
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