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鈥淚t鈥檚 in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.鈥 Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents 1


“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
― Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983
― Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983

“Don鈥檛 you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― 1984
― 1984

“When I use a word,鈥 Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 鈥榠t means just what I choose it to mean 鈥 neither more nor less.鈥
鈥橳he question is,鈥 said Alice, 鈥榳hether you can make words mean so many different things.鈥
鈥橳he question is,鈥 said Humpty Dumpty, 鈥榳hich is to be master 鈥 that鈥檚 all.”
― Through the Looking Glass
鈥橳he question is,鈥 said Alice, 鈥榳hether you can make words mean so many different things.鈥
鈥橳he question is,鈥 said Humpty Dumpty, 鈥榳hich is to be master 鈥 that鈥檚 all.”
― Through the Looking Glass

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner

“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
― 1984
― 1984

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