Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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