The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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