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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

"You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman."

"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel."
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"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."

"Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right."

"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."

"It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another."

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name."

"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."
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