Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The object of power is power.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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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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