Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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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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The object of power is power.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe 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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