Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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