In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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