. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One …

George Orwell
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. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. ✨ George Orwell (1974). Burmese Days, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. ✨ George Orwell (1974). Burmese Days, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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