(p. 26) He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: The New American Library, 1961 [1949].
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