Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLI do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
More George Orwell Quotes
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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