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1  We want to join it and work for it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  'What I really wanted to know was this,' he said.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
3  I want you to turn your back on me for three minutes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
4  They want you to be bursting with energy all the time.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
5  I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
6  Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
7  'I wanted to ask you whether you'd got any razor blades,' he said.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
8  But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
9  You can all do it if you want to, she added as she straightened herself up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
10  I didn't want to say anything in the lane,' she went on, 'in case there's a mike hidden there.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
11  'If you ever want to see me, this is where I can be found,' was what O'Brien had been saying to him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
12  For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
13  But, he realized, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
14  And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
15  She seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
16  He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
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