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When I was young and had no senseIn far-off MandalayI lost my heart to a Burmese girlAs lovely as the day.Her skin was gold, her hair was jet,her teet...more

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In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, bec...more

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There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

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There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which t...more

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And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betra...more

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I have not betrayed Julia.

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Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his ...more

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No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and surviv...more

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When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. Th...more

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But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at th...more

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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family s...more

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They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, a...more

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The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.There were only four dissentients, the three dogs an...more

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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...