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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Orwell

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
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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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELL

Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELL

Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop

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