Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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