We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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