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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak 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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The object of power is power.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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