War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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