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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.

George Orwell

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Believe Media People Tell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Essence Human Inspirational Perfection Seek
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth

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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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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