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Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
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