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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

By George Orwell (1949) — the story, the places, the editions.

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