There were times when it went on and on until the cruel, wicked, unforgivable thing seemed to him not that the guards continued to beat him but that he could not force himself into losing consciousness.

There were times when it went on and on until the cruel, wicked, unforgivable thing seemed to him not that the guards continued to beat him but that he could not force himself into losing consciousness.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 3, Chapter 2. Interrogation and torture of Winston in Ministry of Love, as the guards kick and beat him with fists, truncheons and steel rods.

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