Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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