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1  It contained nothing but rubbish.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  'It's nothing,' she repeated shortly.
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3  but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else.
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4  The old man's memory was nothing but a rubbish-heap of details.
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5  Even with nothing written in it, it was a compromising possession.
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6  The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any value.
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7  The tiny interior of the shop was in fact uncomfortably full, but there was almost nothing in it of the slightest value.
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8  And with that she walked on in the direction in which she had been going, as briskly as though it had really been nothing.
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9  She had a bold, aquiline face, a face that one might have called noble until one discovered that there was as nearly as possible nothing behind it.
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10  There were streaks of white in her hair; but the truly dreadful detail was that her mouth had fallen a little open, revealing nothing except a cavernous blackness.
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11  Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
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12  He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
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13  Children no older than you had to work twelve hours a day for cruel masters who flogged them with whips if they worked too slowly and fed them on nothing but stale breadcrusts and water.
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14  You remembered huge events which had quite probably not happened, you remembered the detail of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, and there were long blank periods to which you could assign nothing.
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15  There was no evidence, only fleeting glimpses that might mean anything or nothing: snatches of overheard conversation, faint scribbles on lavatory walls--once, even, when two strangers met, a small movement of the hand which had looked as though it might be a signal of recognition.
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16  Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.
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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.
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