He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness o…

George Orwell
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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. ✨ George Orwell (1983). 1984, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. ✨ George Orwell (1983). 1984, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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