Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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