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 ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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