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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.

George Orwell

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Existence Truth
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
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 war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
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
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
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
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
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

Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion

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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