Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. — 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
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All… — 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
“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The girl from the fiction department… was looking at him [Winston]… She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was so important that she should understand something of what his life in this country had been; that she should grasp… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had '… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is… — 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
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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