Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The object of power is power.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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