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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to beli...more

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And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inert...more

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The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fe...more

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Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to s...more

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It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from t...more