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Quotes from Winston Smith's torturer in Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell

1903–1950

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Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Winston Smith's torturer in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Orwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.