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In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

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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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
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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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
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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Against Clung Mad Truth World
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Nature Quite Time Want
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics

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