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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

George Orwell

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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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Eric Arthur Blair
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Watching
Skull
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Bath
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Baths
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Voice
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Nothing
Escape
Enveloping
Always
Bed
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