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“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― 1984
― 1984
“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Sanity is not statistical.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
― 1984
― 1984
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