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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
Man 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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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
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
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual

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