In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The object of power is power.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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