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1984 - George Orwell

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HuckfromScandal · 18/06/2020 10:33

Quote from 1984

“Every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.....history has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”

Would quite like a thread of quotes that sum up life in 2020 based on George Orwell’s 1984.

Please add the ones that resonate with you.

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hoodathunkit · 18/06/2020 10:46

I was thinking of this just this morning.

The ending especially seemed apt when Benjamin and the other animals look in the window at the pigs and humans together and they cannot discern animal from human.

Also Boxer the horse. Boxer the horses broke my heart when I was a kid. Worse then Black Beauty is was.

Which is ironic because as a little girl I desperately wanted to be a horse. All my early romantic fantasies centred about me being a wild horse and being courted by a stallion with quivering nostrils, heaving flanks and a beautiful mane.

I was trans-equine but grew out of it :)

Ninkanink · 18/06/2020 10:41

I need to read it again.

I haven’t been able to pick it up for the past 6 years or so, and even more so in the past 3 years, because it’s too fucking true and I knew I’d get too angry and too sad.

But I am ready now.

Collidascope · 18/06/2020 10:38

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.