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1  The sex instinct will be eradicated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
2  It is merely an instinct which cannot be destroyed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
3  Already he had instinctively started forward to help her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
4  They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  He knew as though instinctively that they now took almost no interest in his doings.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
7  That was the bulletin from the front; instinct told him that it was bad news that was coming.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
8  The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
9  CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
10  But the new High group, unlike all its forerunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
12  It seemed to him that he knew instinctively who would survive and who would perish: though just what it was that made for survival, it was not easy to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
13  It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
14  They seemed to possess some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rocket was coming, although the rockets supposedly travelled faster than sound.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
15  Not to let one's feelings appear in one's face was a habit that had acquired the status of an instinct, and in any case they had been standing straight in front of a telescreen when the thing happened.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  the mystique of the Party, and above all of the Inner Party, depends upon DOUBLETHINK But deeper than this lies the original motive, the never-questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought DOUBLETHINK, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence afterwards.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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