Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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