If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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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