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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Born:
June 25, 1903
Died:
January 21, 1950
(aged 46)
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