On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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