The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right all along.
— George Orwell Modern

1984, Animal Farm

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In Front of Your Nose

Date / Period

1946

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://orwell.ru/library/essays/nose/english/e_nose

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