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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.

George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
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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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle

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