I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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 fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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