At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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