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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
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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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A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
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Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
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