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.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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