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 ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe 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 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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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