Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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