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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

George Orwell

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
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.
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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
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

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