Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image