Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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