Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLYour 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.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The object of power is power.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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