Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Every 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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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 real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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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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