He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit 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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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