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Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted. (George Orwell)
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive? View quote
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. View quote
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Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. View quote
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It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. View quote
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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. View quote
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What happens to you here is forever. View quote
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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. View quote
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One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. View quote
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I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards. View quote
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There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important. (George Orwell)
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting. View quote
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. View quote
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. View quote
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The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. View quote
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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. View quote
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Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
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If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them. View quote
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One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. View quote
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? "Natural" death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful. View quote
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Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf. (George Orwell)
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. View quote
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Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. View quote
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It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. View quote
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This life we live nowadays! It's not life, it's stagnation, death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses, and the meaningless people inside them! Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. View quote
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