Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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