Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Anim…

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Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Animal Farm and 1984, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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