I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The object of power is power.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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