To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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