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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 because there will be no words in which to express it.
furtive
beget
imbecility,
borne
inaudibly.
feeble
cavernous
inflexion
reverberation
primitive
sabotage
rendezvous
purges
understand HOW: I do not understand WHY.
lunatic.
both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
palpable
lunatic
pugnaciously.
flogged
benevolent
reconnoitering
agony.
enunciating
furtively
hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
