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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

George Orwell

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Intellectual Normal Person
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
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
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELL

Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Existence Truth
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Transparent Window Writing
The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL

Dead Human One Liner
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel

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