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“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”
― 1984
― 1984
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
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