Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLRight thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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