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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 Orwell

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
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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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Judgement People Thinking Writing
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable

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.

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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.

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