We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, … - George Orwell

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My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

George Orwell

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

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