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“Such songs are not sung anymore in public,

especially the ones that use words like free. They are considered too dangerous." THMT

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“I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. [...]

This is freedom, an eyeblink of it." (playing game of scrabble) THMT

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“It is the first syllable in charity. It is the French word for flesh.

These are the kind of litanies I use, to compose myself." (Talking about the word chair) THMT

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“FAITH. It’s the only thing

they’ve given me to read” - p.63 THMT

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“We can be read to from it, by him,

but we cannot read.”p94 THMT

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“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,” 1984

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“A thing that astonished him about

her was the coarseness of her language.“ 1984

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“We're getting the language into its final shape--

the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else.“ 1984

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“It's a beautiful thing,

the destruction of words.“ 1984

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