Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
More George Orwell Quotes
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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