Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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