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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
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And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
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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.
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It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The more men you've had, the more I love you.
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