The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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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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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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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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