Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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