The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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