But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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