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Winston Smith

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Winston Smith is a fictional character from George Orwell's '1984', representing the struggle against oppressive regimes and the quest for truth.

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"Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself."

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"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."

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