...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all fa…

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. ✨ George Orwell (2001). The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p.1359, Penguin UK
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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. ✨ George Orwell (2001). The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p.1359, Penguin UK

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