"Alone - free - the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is..."

“Alone - free - the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.”

- 1984 - George Orwell (via fenglucia)