"Do you understand that even if he survives, it may be as a different person? We may be obliged to give him a new identity. His face, his movements, the shape of his hands, the color of his hair--even his voice would be different. And you yourself might have become a different person...She murmered something that seemed to be assent. Good. then that is settled."
At this point in time O'Brian, Julia and Winston are speaking about what they will have to be ready for upon joining the Brotherhood. They had just been asked if they were prepared to separate and never see one another again. To which they both responded that they would not be able to do so. This statement got me thinking about the difference between true love and love purely for physical attraction. I feel like our perspective on this changes as we grow in age and in physicality. For instance when you are younger, or around our age, people look first to physical attraction and then to what the person is capable of. I find this wrong and I wish more of us younger folk did too. But then we see that as people get older they begin to see through the outer appearance of people and figure out who they really are.
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