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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. The Russian Messenger, 1878.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Constance Garnett. Modern Library, 2000.

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Animal Farm

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Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker and Warburg, 1945, ch. 10.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Russian Messenger, 1866, monthly serial.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, Feb. 1837, issue 1, ch. 2.

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Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 2.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Beloved

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. Братья Карамазовы (Brat'ya Karamazovy) [The Brothers Karamazov]. The Russian Messenger. Jan. 1879-Nov. 1880. Serial.

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Everyman's Library, 1992, pt. 2, bk. 6, ch. 3.

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WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 1.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

Candide

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Voltaire. Candide. Cramer, 1759, ch. 6.

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Voltaire. Candide. Translated by Robert M. Adams. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Co., 2016, ch. 6.

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

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Dickens, Charles. "A Tale of Two Cities." London: Chapman & Hall. April-Nov. 1859. Weekly serial.

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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott, 1937, ch. 3.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Voltaire

Candide

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide, or the Optimist]. 1759, ch. 1.

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Voltaire. Candide. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. Translated by Robert M. Adams. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 1.

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Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha], vol. 2. Madrid: 1615, ch. 21.

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Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, trans. John Rutherford. Penguin, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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In historical events great men—so called—are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event, and like labels, they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Tolstoy, Leo. Война и мир (Voyna i mir) [War and Peace]. The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford UP, 2010, bk. 3, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Russian Messenger, 1866, montly serial.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 3.

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Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 10.

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