Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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