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Sanity is not statistical.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
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Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
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It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
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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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You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
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Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
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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.
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Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
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A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as robust.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
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Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
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If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
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