![The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/george-orwell-quotes-138042-the-paperweight-was-the-room-he.png)
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
– George Orwell
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