Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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