Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off,…

George Orwell
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Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. ✨ George Orwell (2003). 1984, Plume Books
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Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. ✨ George Orwell (2003). 1984, Plume Books

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