On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe 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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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 real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The object of power is power.
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