If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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