Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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