If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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The object of power is power.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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