Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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The object of power is power.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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