The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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