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The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police

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