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If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? (George Orwell)
If there is hope, it lies in the proles. View quote
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. 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. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. View quote
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. View quote
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting. View quote
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The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity. View quote
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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. View quote
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Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. View quote
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In the face of pain there are no heroes. View quote
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. (George Orwell)
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. View quote
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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. View quote
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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. View quote
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. View quote
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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull. View quote
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. View quote
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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. View quote
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The stars are a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes. View quote
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. View quote
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Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. (George Orwell)
In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. View quote
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His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!” -which he had adopted as his personal motto. View quote
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name. View quote
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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? View quote
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George Orwell

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Occupation: British Author
Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
Quotes count: 611
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