The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery 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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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