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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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