If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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