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1  When you are finally caught, you will confess.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  It had got to be written down, it had got to be confessed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
3  It was easier to confess everything and implicate everybody.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The confession was a formality, though the torture was real.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  But you will have very little to confess, other than your own actions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
6  For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
8  If I confess, they'll shoot you, and if I refuse to confess, they'll shoot you just the same.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
9  At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
11  There was a long range of crimes--espionage, sabotage, and the like--to which everyone had to confess as a matter of course.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  His sole concern was to find out what they wanted him to confess, and then confess it quickly, before the bullying started anew.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  But--though this was one of the crimes that the accused in the great purges invariably confessed to--it was difficult to imagine any such thing actually happening.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  Goldstein had fled and was hiding no one knew where, and of the others, a few had simply disappeared, while the majority had been executed after spectacular public trials at which they made confession of their crimes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  There were times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary crimes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  There were other times when he started out with the resolve of confessing nothing, when every word had to be forced out of him between gasps of pain, and there were times when he feebly tried to compromise, when he said to himself: 'I will confess, but not yet.'
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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