Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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