Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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The object of power is power.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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