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1  That was above all what he wanted to hear.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
2  'What I really wanted to know was this,' he said.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
3  I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.
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5  'I wanted to ask you whether you'd got any razor blades,' he said.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.
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7  All he wanted was to get home quickly and then sit down and be quiet.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  Now, if it so happened that you wanted to buy it, that'd cost you four dollars.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  She wanted to hurry back by the way they had come and start searching in the other direction.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
10  She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to.
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11  He noticed that he badly wanted to urinate, and felt a faint surprise, because he had done so only two or three hours ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
12  But, he realized, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.
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13  And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
14  Nor did he seem shocked or become offensively knowing when it was made clear that Winston wanted the room for the purpose of a love-affair.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
15  There did not seem to be any further question that he wanted to ask: still less did he feel any impulse to utter high-sounding generalities.
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16  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.
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17  Most of it was a tedious routine, but included in it there were also jobs so difficult and intricate that you could lose yourself in them as in the depths of a mathematical problem--delicate pieces of forgery in which you had nothing to guide you except your knowledge of the principles of Ingsoc and your estimate of what the Party wanted you to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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