You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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