During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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