Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain…

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Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. ✨ George Orwell (1983). 1984, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. ✨ George Orwell (1983). 1984, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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