Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL
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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The object of power is power.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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