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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

George Orwell

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.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
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
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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Against Clung Mad Truth World
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
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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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom

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