To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELLYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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 serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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