this sentence is actually a summarising of the whole book. it reflects Orwell's opinion, expressed more obviously in "1984", that things can be changed for the time being, but they will always go back to being bad, in a circle. in other words, the sentence means "if you will live as long as i do you will see how things go back to being bad" (the sentence being an answer to the question "aren't you happy now after the revolution?") this predicament is fulfilled in the end of the book: things have gone back to being bad, but Benjamin is one of the only animals that lived long inoff to witness this. other animals, like boxer, died peacefully, unaware of the inevitable circle and of things going back to being bad.
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