Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLYour 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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