Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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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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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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