There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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