When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist

George Orwell
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When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct. ✨ George Orwell (2016). Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct. ✨ George Orwell (2016). Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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