During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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