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George Orwell Inspirational Quotes (411)

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. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
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Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
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You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
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Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
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The stars are a free show it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
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During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.
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A minority of one... the definition of insanity.
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[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.
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To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
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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.
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Writing 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.
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
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The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
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His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.
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Never use a long word where a short one will do.
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
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To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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