If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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 capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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