Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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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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