It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its ba — George Orwell, 1984
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its ba — George Orwell, 1984
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its ba — George Orwell, 1984
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its ba — George Orwell, 1984
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its ba — George Orwell, 1984
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It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

— George Orwell, 1984
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