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 ORWELLIn the face of pain there are no heroes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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