Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLOf 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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