Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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