However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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 only good human being is a dead one.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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