João Romão
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1984
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‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’

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“Boddie calls me at 8.00 p.m. I was half thinking of going home, half thinking of just ordering a Chinese at the desk. But I end up in the mortuary. That’s how this job goes sometimes.”
― In the Dark
― In the Dark

“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty

“The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.”
― The Law
― The Law

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