It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to se…

George Orwell
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It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already. ✨ George Orwell (1983). 1984, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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