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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

George Orwell

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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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Against Defense Politics Represent War
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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Beat Club Ground Man Police
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
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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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
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

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