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The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.
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It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
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the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
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life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone.
What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude is unimportant
