The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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