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George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.
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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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You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
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Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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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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If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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It was not the man's brain that was speaking it was his larynx.
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Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him the horror was that he might also be wrong.
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?
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