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To the past, said Winston,
The past is more important, agreed O'Brien gravely.

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth

Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.