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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.

George Orwell

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want

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