“The earth is the center of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic — indeed, it is a species of magic.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing:… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could only wish for one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of… — 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
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Under ground, under ground! Down in the safe soft womb of earth, where there is no getting of jobs or losing of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had… — 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
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
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