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William Shakespeare
“This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”
William Shakespeare

George Orwell
“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something of life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.”
George Orwell, 1984

William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.”
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

George Orwell
“Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark−haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.”
George Orwell, 1984
tags: 1984, hate, sex

George Orwell
“For a moment he had had an overwhelming hallucination of her presence. She had seemed to be not merely with him, but inside him. It was as though she had got into the texture of his skin.”
George Orwell, 1984

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