The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLThe war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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