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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
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He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable
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