“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered? — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? — 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 old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — 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
“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us .' - Julia” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an… — 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
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,… — 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
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
