Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLMan 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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