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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Believe Media People Tell
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle

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