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1  The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  They owned everything that there was to own.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
3  'The human sound-track' he nicknamed her in his own mind.
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4  Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.
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5  Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.
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7  But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength.
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8  It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.
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9  BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own.
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10  There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.
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11  When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.
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12  And yet the instant that he allowed his thoughts to wander, his feet had brought him back here of their own accord.
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13  There was no way of knowing whose job would finally be adopted, but he felt a profound conviction that it would be his own.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
15  He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and his sister had been sacrificed to his own.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.
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17  He did not remember the raid itself, but he did remember his father's hand clutching his own as they hurried down, down, down into some place deep in the earth, round and round a spiral staircase which rang under his feet and which finally so wearied his legs that he began whimpering and they had to stop and rest.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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