“ If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ”
George Orwell, 1984 (1949). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
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| Source | 1984 |
| Topic | love giving |
| Date | 1949 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt |
Context
“He did not suppose, from what he could remember of her, that she had been an unusual woman, still less an intelligent one; and yet she had possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her thatan action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. When the last of the chocolate wasgone, his mother had clasped the child in her arms. It was no use, it changed nothing, it did not produce more chocolate, it did not avert the child's death or her own; but it seemed natural to her to do it.”
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