Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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