“Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again” — 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
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because 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
