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Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
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Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
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You are a slow learner, Winston. How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
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And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
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they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
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He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
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For the future. For the unborn.
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