In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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