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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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