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1  He was glad that this was happening, but he had no physical desire.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  He was not bored, he had no desire for conversation or distraction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  But it is also necessary to REMEMBER that events happened in the desired manner.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  When it grew worse he thought only of the pain itself, and of his desire for food.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  During the month that he had known her the nature of his desire for her had changed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  Then the memory of her face came back, and with it a raging, intolerable desire to be alone.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  She gave the tips of his fingers a quick squeeze that seemed to invite not desire but affection.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl's body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  At the sight of the words I LOVE YOU the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He was overwhelmed by a desire not so much to get away from Julia as to get back to the Chestnut Tree Cafe, which had never seemed so attractive as at this moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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