To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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