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.
GEORGE ORWELL
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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