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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. (George Orwell)
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. View quote
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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. View quote
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. View quote
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In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. View quote
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. View quote
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. View quote
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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. View quote
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England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. View quote
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Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey. View quote
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Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. (George Orwell)
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. View quote
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. View quote
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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. View quote
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Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial. View quote
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Sanity is not statistical. View quote
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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. View quote
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He loved Big Brother. View quote
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Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. View quote
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. View quote
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. (George Orwell)
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. View quote
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Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. View quote
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Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. View quote
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He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. View quote
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