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1  Since he was arrested he had not been fed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  O'Brien might know that he had been arrested.
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3  It was always at night--the arrests invariably happened at night.
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4  In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest.
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5  Since the moment when they arrested him he had not seen darkness or daylight.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  You could not invariably assume this to be the case when people were arrested.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  But the purpose of all of them was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, we were not at war with Eastasia at all.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  He could not remember whether at any time since his arrest he had taken off all his clothes at one time.
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10  The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  He still did not know, probably never would know, whether it had been morning or evening when they arrested him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  She had had her first love-affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  It was perfectly possible that before he was shot the whole drama of his arrest and interrogation would be enacted all over again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  Ultimately it is by means of DOUBLETHINK that the Party has been able--and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years--to arrest the course of history.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  It was as when Winston had gazed into the heart of the paperweight, with the feeling that it would be possible to get inside that glassy world, and that once inside it time could be arrested.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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