Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 3, Chapter 2. After Winston is tortured by O’Brien to the point of lunacy and is injected with a drug to relieve the pain, Winston confesses he loves his torturer because he understands Winston. Stockholm syndrome ?

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