Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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 enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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