The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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