If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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 Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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