I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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