If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The object of power is power.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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