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1  It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  You could not invariably assume this to be the case when people were arrested.
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3  It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.
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4  Perhaps thirty people personally known to Winston, not counting his parents, had disappeared at one time or another.
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5  Very likely as many as a dozen people were now working away on rival versions of what Big Brother had actually said.
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6  More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.
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7  And yet the very next instant he was at one with the people about him, and all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to be true.
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8  A momentary hush passed over the group of people round the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an Inner Party member approaching.
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9  Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.
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10  There were people sitting all over the stone-flagged floor, and other people, packed tightly together, were sitting on metal bunks, one above the other.
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11  Winston was just taking his place in one of the middle rows when two people whom he knew by sight, but had never spoken to, came unexpectedly into the room.
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12  He knew that in the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed.
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13  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.
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14  A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.
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15  Then the sheep-face melted into the figure of a Eurasian soldier who seemed to be advancing, huge and terrible, his sub-machine gun roaring, and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen, so that some of the people in the front row actually flinched backwards in their seats.
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16  In the long, windowless hall, with its double row of cubicles and its endless rustle of papers and hum of voices murmuring into speakwrites, there were quite a dozen people whom Winston did not even know by name, though he daily saw them hurrying to and fro in the corridors or gesticulating in the Two Minutes Hate.
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17  Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party--an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.
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