You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELLA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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