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1  Ah, that I couldn't say, of course.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  You could not say that he was unorthodox.
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3  Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  'What I mean to say, there is a war on,' said Parsons.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  I know you,' the eyes seemed to say, 'I see through you.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  He would say to him: 'Tell me about your life when you were a boy.'
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  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
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12  It had been on the tip of his tongue to say 'Except the proles,' but he checked himself, not feeling fully certain that this remark was not in some way unorthodox.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and--one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency--bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.
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16  There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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