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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. — George Orwell

Novel · Dystopian fiction

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949
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Dystopian futureTotalitarianismThe future
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Prophecies and predictions
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Dystopian fiction
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Novel
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1949
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George Orwell
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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 3.

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