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George Orwell

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
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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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Believe Media People Tell
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
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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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
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
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press

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