I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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