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They can’t get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”
a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist.
so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes,
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?” Winston thought. “By making him suffer,”
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me—”
