During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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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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