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An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.
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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.
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Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
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The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
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The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
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Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
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