It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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The object of power is power.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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