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.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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