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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. — George Orwell

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949
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Human needs
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Dystopian fiction
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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. 2.

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