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Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. - George Orwell (Coming Up for Air Quotes)

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Source:(Secker & Warburg, ed. 1939), Part III, Chapter I, Page 163
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George Orwell (Coming Up for Air Quotes)
  • Book: Coming Up for Air
  • Writer: George Orwell
  • Genre: Satire
  • Published: 1939
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