More from last words in his notebook, 17 April 1949
- Four legs good, two legs bad.
- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
- It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
- You had to live–did live, from habit that became instinct–in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
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