To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELLActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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