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It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take “good”, for instance. If you have a word like “good”, what need is there for a word like “bad”? “Ungood” will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not.
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
