Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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