“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be… — 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 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
“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 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
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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