You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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