If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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