War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
More George Orwell Quotes
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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